From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: read-file-name-predicate Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:35:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173289061 11609 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2007 17:37:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:37:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 18:37:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HP04u-0000Hn-F4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:37:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HP051-0006al-5Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HP04i-0006YA-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HP04h-0006XR-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HP04g-0006XL-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HP04Z-0000fP-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l27Hb3Z5002148 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:37:03 -0700 Original-Received: from rcsmt250.oracle.com (rcsmt250.oracle.com [148.87.90.195]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l27Hb0nk011672 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:37:00 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by rcsmt250.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2504169401173288944; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:35:44 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67520 Archived-At: > `read-file-name-predicate' has an external, > Lisp behavior: During completion, Lisp code can check what > the predicate is or even change the predicate. Shouldn't that > be documented? > > I see no reason to document it at present. > It is meant for internal use only. How is it different from `minibuffer-completion-predicate'? I see the two as parallel. Without this variable, how can you do, for file-name completion, what you might do for non-file-name completion using `minibuffer-completion-predicate'? Why document one but not the other?