Re: Still bugs in read-file-name completion on w32

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> It does not affect me on Windows. These are the files matcing "test" in c:\:
>
> test av mellanslag.txt             test.doc.PPT
> test.html                          test.html~
> test.jpg                           test.txt
> test.txt~                          test.zip
> test1.txt                          test2.txt
> test_stor.mp3
>   
I think you missed an important part of Lennart's mail. In his case only 
one file matched "test", and it did not match the regexp he used for 
completions.

I think this is by design. Completion is there to help the user choose a 
file, not to prevent them from choosing the wrong file. By default we 
ignore backup files and known binary suffixes, but if the only match for 
what the user has typed is a file that we would normally ignore, then we 
happily complete to that, because ultimately the user knows best.