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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>
To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sloppy Directory Completion
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:46:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005051146.o45BkrrZ025424@beta.mvs.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvocin9gmd.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:18:24 -0400)

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:18:24 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't Emacs complete on directories only in for example dired
> > (C-x d)?
>
> > Is this a bug or a todo?
>
> I think it's a bug.

I don't agree with Stefan.

Many times I do completion on something like "*use*" just to find the
group of files I want see and than use something like "bsw2-use*subgroup"
as the actual argument to `dired'.

Dired is NOT just for Full directories. It works nicely on files
template (I'm sure you know and use it this way too).

May be completion of directory names ONLY should be an option, but
I disagree strongly that it be the default completion.

Ehud.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-17 11:41 Sloppy Directory Completion Nordlöw
2010-03-17 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-17 15:58   ` Nordlöw
2010-05-05 11:46   ` Ehud Karni [this message]
2010-05-05 14:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-05 14:59       ` Ehud Karni

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