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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: vmalloc@gmail.com, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 16577@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16577: Add regexp-based version of completion-ignored-extensions
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:20:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k4sgpi1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpmngmcne.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Feb 2022 11:06:52 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I haven't looked at the various code snippets that use the resulting
>> regexps, but I imagine that some are matching on the full file name and
>> some aren't?
>
> I think the important case only has the nondirectory part of the file
> name at hand, which is why I propose for "/<RE>" to be defined as
> matching only on that part (with a terminating / if it's a directory).

Oh, so this wouldn't be a plain regexp, but a ... mini-language where
"/" has a special meaning?  I think that sounds pretty confusing.

> No, the "/" would look like it's matching the / of a full file name, but
> it would really be just a marker to indicate that the rest is a regexp
> (and where it's anchored) and the matching code would extract the regexp
> from it (and replace it with the equivalent of \\(?:\\`\\|/\\) as
> needed).

Hm.  I think it'd a more straightforward interface to just keep regexps
out of it all, but I see the attraction of having a regexp interface,
too.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-21 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-28 11:15 bug#16577: 24.3; Ido omitting directories with similar names to other directories Rotem Yaari
2014-01-28 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 17:18   ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-28 17:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 17:35       ` Rotem Yaari
2014-01-28 17:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 18:59       ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-28 19:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-28 20:15           ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-28 21:39             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-29  2:43             ` Glenn Morris
2022-02-20 13:26               ` bug#16577: Add regexp-based version of completion-ignored-extensions Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 15:06                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-20 22:05                   ` bug#16577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-21 14:00                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 16:06                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-21 16:20                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-02-21 16:23                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 16:57                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 17:01                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 17:13                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-21 17:36                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-21 17:01                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-21 17:33                           ` bug#16577: [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-22 13:17                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-22 13:56                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-23 12:05                               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 21:48                 ` bug#16577: [External] : " Drew Adams

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