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From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
	Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Still bugs in read-file-name completion on w32
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:56:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0604250656y32228b4ar28c2cbf45864948f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk69ikfsc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> > I think this is by design. Completion is there to help the user choose
> > a file, not to prevent them from choosing the wrong file. By default we
> > ignore backup files and known binary suffixes, but if the only match for
> > what the user has typed is a file that we would normally ignore, then we
> > happily complete to that, because ultimately the user knows best.

> Are you sure?
> I know this is the expected behavior of completion-ignored-extensions, but
> I didn't know this is the expected behavior of the `predicate' argument to
> read-file-name.

I agree, and the documentation string is quite clear:

...
If optional sixth arg predicate is non-nil, possible completions and
the resulting file name must satisfy (funcall predicate NAME).
...

*Must* satisfy.

/Mathias

      reply	other threads:[~2006-04-25 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 14:22 Still bugs in read-file-name completion on w32 Lennart Borgman
2006-04-21 11:26 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-04-21 13:33   ` Jason Rumney
2006-04-21 17:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-04-25 13:56       ` Mathias Dahl [this message]

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