From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Gimblett Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ignore patterns for find-file tab completion? Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20061029194410.GB26555@cspcag2.swan.ac.uk> References: <20061029175833.GA8389@cspcag2.swan.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162151097 3395 80.91.229.2 (29 Oct 2006 19:44:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 29 20:44:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeGaB-00031r-2L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:44:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeGaA-0003ly-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeGZr-0003kN-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:44:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeGZo-0003jV-Ma for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:44:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeGZo-0003jL-Dx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:44:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [137.44.1.33] (helo=mhs.swan.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GeGZo-00026S-Eh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:44:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [137.44.2.59] (helo=cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk) by mhs.swan.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GeGZm-00021p-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:10 +0000 Original-Received: from cspcag2.swan.ac.uk (cspcag2 [137.44.2.21]) by cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B87DB29897 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:10 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from cspcag2.swan.ac.uk (gimbo@localhost.swan.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by cspcag2.swan.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k9TJiAiN005848 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:10 GMT Original-Received: (from gimbo@localhost) by cspcag2.swan.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k9TJiA9r025470 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:44:10 GMT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38390 Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:38:27AM -0800, Drew Adams wrote: > > Yes, it is a common thing to do. You can customize option > `completion-ignored-extensions' so that files with a given extension > (e.g. hi) are ignored for completion. That should do exactly what > you want. Perfect. Many thanks - that is indeed exactly what I wanted. Thanks! -Andy -- Andy Gimblett Computer Science Department University of Wales Swansea http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/