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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CVS directories in completion-ignored-extensions
Date: 01 Jan 2004 22:27:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31xqj5pgw.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uwu8c5ibu.fsf@elta.co.il>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:34:07 -0500
> > From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> > 
> > So sure, without a better mechanism, there will be some annoying side-effects
> > in completion, but let's program for the common case, and _keep_ CVS in
> > completion-ignored-extensions.
> 
> How about if we change "CVS/" to "/CVS/" and modify the code to match
> the whole name if the member of the list begins with a slash?

That's a good idea!

> 
> The only problem with that approach, AFAICT, is when a user wants to
> ignore files under the root directory.  If that sounds like a serious
> problem, we could have something like "//foo/" to DTRT in such cases.

IIUC, the completion-ignored-extensions doesn't have any notion of
things being relative to a certain directory, so why is the root
directory a problem?

> 
> What do you-all think?

I like it, but I think /CVS/ is sufficient.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-01 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-30  8:01 CVS directories in completion-ignored-extensions Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-30 23:44 ` Eric Hanchrow
2003-12-31  1:08   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-12-31  1:34     ` Miles Bader
2003-12-31  5:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-01  5:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-01 21:10         ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-02  0:31           ` Miles Bader
2004-01-02  1:06           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-01-02  9:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-03 11:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-04 18:53               ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-04 23:17                 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-04 23:59                   ` Miles Bader
2004-01-05 17:56                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-06  0:08                       ` Miles Bader
2004-01-06  0:52                         ` Kenichi Handa
2004-01-06  1:54                           ` Miles Bader
2004-01-06  3:00                             ` Kenichi Handa
2005-01-19 11:34                               ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-19 14:57                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-19 15:52                                   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-19 16:07                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-06  5:55                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-06  6:26                           ` Miles Bader
2004-01-07  2:40                         ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-01 21:27         ` Kim F. Storm [this message]

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