From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS directories in completion-ignored-extensions Date: 01 Jan 2004 07:49:41 +0200 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072936287 29319 80.91.224.253 (1 Jan 2004 05:51:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:51:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 06:51:24 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 1Abvjw-0003xl-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 06:51:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Abvju-0007Oj-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 06:51:22 +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 1Abwep-0002Uc-Fw for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Abwea-0002UW-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Abwe4-0002QR-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Abwe3-0002QH-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:49:24 -0500 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <20031231013407.GC19084@fencepost> (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:34:07 -0500) 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:18937 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18937 > 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? 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. What do you-all think?