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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation of `file-name-completion' is somewhat confusing
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:58:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83li6gkpb2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAF+z6ExcNSmkwBGk+-Faun0u4FDiqdq3iX8t1qQ00kO6oKR1A@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:07:37 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
> 
> In (info "(elisp) File Name Completion"):
>  -- Function: file-name-completion filename directory &optional
>           predicate
> [...]
>      If PREDICATE is non-`nil' then it ignores possible completions that
>      don't satisfy PREDICATE, after calling that function with one
>      argument, the expanded absolute file name.
> 
> And in the doc string of this function:
>     If PREDICATE is non-nil, call PREDICATE with each possible
>     completion (in absolute form) and ignore it if PREDICATE returns
>     nil.
> 
> It seems to me that the arguments of PREDICATE described by these two
> paragraphs don't agree with each other: the first one is "the expanded
> absolute file name", but the second one is "each possible completion".
> IMHO the latter is more appropriate.  Or maybe I got something wrong.
> Any ideas?

Why do you think that "expanded absolute file name" of a "possible
completion" and "each possible completion (in absolute form)" are
anything but the same thing?  Where exactly do you see the difference
between these two?



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-12  2:07 Documentation of `file-name-completion' is somewhat confusing Xue Fuqiao
2013-06-12  2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-06-12 13:39   ` Xue Fuqiao

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