From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Q on read-file-name and completion-ignored-extensions Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:33:45 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200601200233.k0K2XjC26200@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137725467 13429 80.91.229.2 (20 Jan 2006 02:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 20 03:51:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzmMd-0004O4-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:51:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzmP6-0003vg-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:53:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzmOJ-0003i8-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzmOF-0003gn-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzmBO-0002Xt-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:39:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EzmFW-0007hg-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:43:38 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.3+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0K2ammi026002; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:36:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id k0K2XjC26200; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:33:45 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: drew.adams@oracle.com In-reply-to: X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.1 (manatee.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.104]); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:36:48 -0600 (CST) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49294 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: Is it perhaps true that the "displaying a list of completions" that shows ignored completions (even when there are non-ignored candidates) applies only to display by `?' and not to display by TAB? No, it affects TAB too, if TAB can not do completion, even ignoring all extensions in completion-ignored-extensions. As I explained, TAB takes completion-ignored-extensions into account in deciding whether it can do completion (as opposed to having to display a list of completions), but _after_ it decides that it has to display a list, it ignores the variable. Sincerely, Luc.