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>>>>> "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