From: dave@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
Subject: Re: ignoring subdirectory in find-file completion
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:07:26 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81u0kim56d.fsf@adboyd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vw83bs28c4z.fsf@berry.phys.ntnu.no
Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for some way to make completion when using find-file
> ignore any directory named _darcs; i.e., if I have a directory
> structure
>
> foo/
> _darcs/
> ...
> bar/
> ...
>
> then `M-x find-file f o o / TAB' should complete to `foo/bar/'.
>
> From the documentation I thought that
>
> (add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions "_darcs")
>
> should do what I want, but that does not seem to be the case.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Albert.
The docs for completion-ignored-extensions say:
...Directories are ignored if they match any string in this list which
ends in a slash...
And your "_darcs" doesn't end in a slash...
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-01 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-01 13:01 ignoring subdirectory in find-file completion Albert Reiner
2005-06-01 16:07 ` J. David Boyd [this message]
2005-06-01 16:19 ` Albert Reiner
2005-06-01 16:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-01 16:52 ` Albert Reiner
2005-06-01 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2832.1117657492.25862.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-06-01 20:42 ` Albert Reiner
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