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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Respecting FIGNORE
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:02:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbp21bc52.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.0.1298537225.21381.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

> Is there any way to configure Emacs so that the completion for find-file,
> find-file-at-point, and others respect the FIGNORE environment variable,
> and so ignore "undesired" files?

You can do something like

  (dolist (ext (split-string (getenv "FIGNORE") ":"))
    (add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ext))


-- Stefan "guaranteed untested"


       reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24 17:02 UTC|newest]

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2011-02-24 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-02-24  8:10 Respecting FIGNORE Gary

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