Re: ignore CVS directories with tab complete

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch>]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> 1) C-xC-f to open a file
>
> 2) Move to a directory containing two sub-dirs, one of which is CVS/
>
> 3) Hit "tab". 
>
> 4) I get *Completions* with "CVS/" offered as one of the options. What
>    I want is for it to ignore CVS, and offer me the other directory. 
>
> Is this what you have?

GNU Emacs 21.2: Yes, same here.

But: C-h v completion-ignored-extensions RET also says:

| Documentation:
| *Completion ignores filenames ending in any string in this list.
| This variable does not affect lists of possible completions,
| but does affect the commands that actually do completions.

hmm, maybe I'm a bit dense, but I do not fully understand...
Any way it *does not* affect the presented list of completions like 
the documentation says...

Robert