From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sloppy Directory Completion
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:58:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31ed6c0c-f8d0-445f-b3ec-c1249b531844@q21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvocin9gmd.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
On 17 mar, 15:18, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> 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.
>
> Stefan
Firstly dired should uses dired-read-dir-and-switches which in turn
uses read-directory-name and not read-file-name which we could expect.
I believe this is todo.
Secondly from the definition of read-directory-name we can deduce that
it will not work as long as PREDICATE argument in read-file-name() is
not respected. I wrote about this in another thread today here on
gnu.emacs.help.
/Nordlöw
Definition follows
(defun read-directory-name (prompt &optional dir default-dirname
mustmatch initial)
"..."
(unless dir
(setq dir default-directory))
(read-file-name prompt dir (or default-dirname
(if initial (expand-file-name initial dir)
dir))
mustmatch initial
'file-directory-p))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 15:58 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 [this message]
2010-05-05 11:46 ` Ehud Karni
2010-05-05 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-05 14:59 ` Ehud Karni
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