From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Karni" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sloppy Directory Completion Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:46:53 +0300 Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Message-ID: <201005051146.o45BkrrZ025424@beta.mvs.co.il> References: <5e481626-c874-4f97-9c69-5ef776adfc83@d27g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273083476 11397 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 18:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 20:17:55 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9jAM-0004P0-TS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 20:17:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9jAL-0007HW-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9dWX-0000sc-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37855 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9dWR-0000lp-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9dVa-0004RP-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.16.147.12] (port=41835 helo=unix.mvs.co.il) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9dVa-0004Pu-8P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (beta [10.253.0.3]) by unix.mvs.co.il (8.13.8/8.13.7) with ESMTP id o45BksxV016777; Wed, 5 May 2010 14:46:55 +0300 Original-Received: from beta.mvs.co.il (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o45Bkst6025428; Wed, 5 May 2010 14:46:54 +0300 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by beta.mvs.co.il (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id o45BkrrZ025424; Wed, 5 May 2010 14:46:53 +0300 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:18:24 -0400) X-Mailer: Emacs 21.3.1 rmail (send-msg 1.109) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73469 Archived-At: 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. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry