Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

[Yoni Rabkin]

Hello, I'm running GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) of
2005-07-12.

I have the following directory structure:

/home/trg/src/emacsen/emacsCVS/emacs/
/home/trg/src/emacsen/emacs21/emacs-21.4/

On the CVS Emacs (version listed above) I do the following:

1) C-x C-f ("~/" appears)
2) "sr" TAB (lone completion to "src/")
3) "em" TAB (lone completion to "emacsen/")
4) TAB (completes to "emacs21", and not "emacs") !!!

On GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) I do the following:

1) C-x C-f ("~/" appears)
2) "sr" TAB (lone completion to "src/")
3) "em" TAB (lone completion to "emacsen/")
4) TAB (completes to "emacs", as I would expect).

Why does completion behave differently?

-- 
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
	Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell

Re: Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:03:14 +0300 Yoni Rabkin wrote:

> I have the following directory structure:
>
> /home/trg/src/emacsen/emacsCVS/emacs/
> /home/trg/src/emacsen/emacs21/emacs-21.4/
>
> On the CVS Emacs (version listed above) I do the following:
>
> 1) C-x C-f ("~/" appears)
> 2) "sr" TAB (lone completion to "src/")
> 3) "em" TAB (lone completion to "emacsen/")
> 4) TAB (completes to "emacs21", and not "emacs") !!!

I guess removing "CVS/" from `completion-ignored-extensions'
should help.

David

Re: Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

[Yoni Rabkin]

David Hansen <david.hansen <at> gmx.net> writes:

> I guess removing "CVS/" from `completion-ignored-extensions'
> should help.
> 
> David

"CVS/" is a member of `completion-ignored-extensions' in both versions of Emacs
(21 and 22). I'm asking why it should behave that way despite that.

Re: Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I guess removing "CVS/" from `completion-ignored-extensions'
>> should help.
>> 
>> David

> "CVS/" is a member of `completion-ignored-extensions' in both versions of
> Emacs (21 and 22). I'm asking why it should behave that way despite that.

Because the "foo/" form in completion-ignored-extensions didn't work in
Emacs-21, so the "CVS/" entry had no effect whatsoever.


        Stefan

Re: Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

[Yoni Rabkin]

On 7/12/05, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >> I guess removing "CVS/" from `completion-ignored-extensions'
> >> should help.
> >>
> >> David
> 
> > "CVS/" is a member of `completion-ignored-extensions' in both versions of
> > Emacs (21 and 22). I'm asking why it should behave that way despite that.
> 
> Because the "foo/" form in completion-ignored-extensions didn't work in
> Emacs-21, so the "CVS/" entry had no effect whatsoever.
> 
> 
>         Stefan

Ahh, now it is clear. Thank you Stefan. 

-- 
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
	Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell

Re: Directory name completion question for CVS Emacs

[Jason Rumney]

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Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>"CVS/" is a member of `completion-ignored-extensions' in both versions of
>>Emacs (21 and 22). I'm asking why it should behave that way despite that.
>>    
>>
>
>Because the "foo/" form in completion-ignored-extensions didn't work in
>Emacs-21, so the "CVS/" entry had no effect whatsoever.
>  
>
Perhaps we should also make it so the "/foo/" form also works, for 
specifying that only subdirectories called "foo" should be matched, not 
directories like "barfoo" that merely end in "foo".




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