Re: Q on read-file-name and completion-ignored-extensions

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:
>     > Function `read-file-name' does not seem to respect
>     > `completion-ignored-extensions'.
> 
>     Works for me and worked in Emacs-20 and Emacs-21 as well.
>     Please give a recipe.
> 
> emacs -q
> 
> (setq completion-ignored-extensions (cons ".el"
> completion-ignored-extensions))
> 
> cd to a directory with .el files
> 
> M-: (read-file-name "foo: ")
> 
> Type the beginning of the name of one of the .el files - e.g. app, then TAB.
> 
> I see all files starting with "app" in *Completions*, including .el files.
> If there is only one matching file, then its name is inserted in the
> minibuffer.
> 
> In Emacs 20.7 and also in GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
> X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc
> (3.3) --cflags -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include -I../.
> ./tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include -I../../zlib-1.2.2/incl
> ude'

Not for me, in Emacs 21.4 on Solaris 9.  Try it with
`emacs -q --no-site-file`
just to make sure it's not a problem with your local configuration.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers