Re: ignore CVS directories with tab complete

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

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
> directories before I get to the source. As I have to move up and down
> these directories many times in a day, the ability to tab
> automatically up and down would be fabulous. 


How about using dired to navigate the directories?
Or using filecache.el to cache your files' locations?


> 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. 

Does complete.el help?


-- 
Kevin Rodgers