Re: bug with file name completing

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

> Create an empty directory `foo' in the current directory, then put two
> empty files `bar.ps' and `bar.pdf' into it.  If using, say,
> `insert-file', completing in the minibuffer doesn't work as expected.
> Pressing `foo/', then <TAB>, Emacs incorrectly completes to
> `foo/bar.ps' while it should be `foo/bar.p' only, and repeated
> pressing of <TAB> should offer a menu with both `bar.ps' and
> `bar.pdf' as possible completions.

completion-ignored-extensions is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is 
(".svn/" "CVS/" ".o" "~" ".bin" ".lbin" ".so" ".a" ".ln" ".blg" ".bbl" ".elc" ".lof" ".glo" ".idx" ".lot" ".dvi" ".fmt" ".tfm" ".pdf" ".class" ".fas" ".lib" ".mem" ".x86f" ".sparcf" ".fasl" ".ufsl" ".fsl" ".dxl" ".pfsl" ".dfsl" ".lo" ".la" ".gmo" ".mo" ".toc" ".aux" ".cp" ".fn" ".ky" ".pg" ".tp" ".vr" ".cps" ".fns" ".kys" ".pgs" ".tps" ".vrs" ".pyc" ".pyo")


Documentation:
*Completion ignores filenames ending in any string in this list.
Directories are ignored if they match any string in this list which
ends in a slash.
This variable does not affect lists of possible completions,
but does affect the commands that actually do completions.

Andreas.

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