From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS directories in completion-ignored-extensions Date: 01 Jan 2004 22:27:43 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1892-Tue30Dec2003100155+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <87n099j2fb.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <200312310108.hBV18Xj28227@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <20031231013407.GC19084@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072989013 4998 80.91.224.253 (1 Jan 2004 20:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 20:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 21:30:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ac9SH-0002qH-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ac9SH-00084n-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AcAOf-0006Og-6O for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:30:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AcAOC-0006Ig-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:29:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AcANc-0006Bo-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.235] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AcANb-0006BF-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 19C9047FF59; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:27:40 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18943 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18943 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:34:07 -0500 > > From: Miles Bader > > > > 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 http://www.cua.dk