From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ignore CVS directories with tab complete Date: 14 Aug 2003 12:01:08 +0100 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3F3A7E18.8090703@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1060863765 527 80.91.224.253 (14 Aug 2003 12:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 14:22:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19nH7s-0002jn-00 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:22:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19nH51-0004OO-Jj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:19:47 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!zen.net.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1060858869 4280 130.88.198.228 (14 Aug 2003 11:01:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:01:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115883 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11802 >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Rodgers writes: Kevin> Phillip Lord wrote: >> Dear all If I start a clean emacs (-q --no-site-file), and then >> change into a >> directory with only two sub-dirs, one of which is CVS, and then >> hit tab I get... Completions >> ../ ./ CVS/ uk/ >> With java this is a pain as there are four or five levels of >> empty Kevin> How about using dired to navigate the directories? My experience with dired, is that it's slower than using tab completion, which is not good. Kevin> Or using filecache.el to cache your files' locations? filecache.el I didn't know about. It looks potentially useful though, so I shall investigate. >> Now before I set about writing code >> a) is there any way of getting emacs to ignore the CVS directory >> all >> together. That way I could move up five empty directories with >> five tabs. >> b) even better, have emacs realise that there are five empty >> directories, and auto complete all the way up. I know about >> completion-ignored-extensions. This includes CVS by >> default, and doesn't seem to do what I need. Kevin> Does complete.el help? Not that I can see. Am I missing something? Phil