From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: vmalloc@gmail.com, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
16577@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16577: Add regexp-based version of completion-ignored-extensions
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:01:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy224kvj4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k4sgpi1.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:20:54 +0100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-02-21 17:20:54] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> I haven't looked at the various code snippets that use the resulting
>>> regexps, but I imagine that some are matching on the full file name and
>>> some aren't?
>> I think the important case only has the nondirectory part of the file
>> name at hand, which is why I propose for "/<RE>" to be defined as
>> matching only on that part (with a terminating / if it's a directory).
> Oh, so this wouldn't be a plain regexp, but a ... mini-language where
> "/" has a special meaning?
Yup.
> I think that sounds pretty confusing.
It's not great, indeed. But, AFAICT something like that is the only way
to introduce regexps into `completion-ignored-extensions` without having
to touch too much of the code using that variable.
> Hm. I think it'd a more straightforward interface to just keep
> regexps out of it all, but I see the attraction of having a regexp
> interface, too.
There are several file name patterns I've wanted to ignore but couldn't
because enumerating them all is somewhere between inconvenient
and impossible (whereas a regexp would cover them easily).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-21 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-28 11:15 bug#16577: 24.3; Ido omitting directories with similar names to other directories Rotem Yaari
2014-01-28 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 17:18 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-28 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 17:35 ` Rotem Yaari
2014-01-28 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 18:59 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-28 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 20:15 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-28 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-29 2:43 ` Glenn Morris
2022-02-20 13:26 ` bug#16577: Add regexp-based version of completion-ignored-extensions Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-20 22:05 ` bug#16577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-21 14:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-21 16:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 16:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 17:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 17:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-02-21 17:33 ` bug#16577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-22 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-22 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-23 12:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 21:48 ` bug#16577: [External] : " Drew Adams
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