From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:35:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqr71bon.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv4p2snsa3.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:37:16 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Thanks, and sorry for forgetting about that. (But in rereading the doc
>> string now, it seems either ambiguously worded or even wrong:
>
>> "Completion ignores file names ending in any string in this list.
>> It does not ignore them if all possible completions end in one of
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> these strings or when displaying a list of completions.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> It ignores directory names if they match any string in this list which
>> ends in a slash."
>
>> This seems to be saying that the *Completions* buffer should display the
>> file names libthread_db-1.0.so and libthread_db.so in the above
>> scenarios, but that is not what happens. Or am I misconstruing the doc
>> string? If so, perhaps it can be rephrased more clearly.
>
> In your examples, you hit "/usr/lib/libthr TAB" which does not display
> the completions for "libthr" but instead performs the completion.
> You only get a *Completions* buffer on the second TAB, at which point
> the minibuffer input is "/usr/lib/libthreadweaver.so.4" for which
> there's no *.so file to display any more.
> If instead of the first TAB you press ? then you'll see the .so
> file listed.
>
>
> Stefan
Thanks (again) for setting me straight.
Steve Berman
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 21:42 bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug? Stephen Berman
2008-11-01 1:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-01 19:35 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2008-11-01 19:45 ` bug#1288: marked as done (23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?) Emacs bug Tracking System
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