From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:42:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlkkzbkl.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In response to my bug report #1283:
> > On my system, /lib contains these two files:
>
> > libthread_db-1.0.so
> > libthread_db.so.1
>
> > When I type `C-x d' or `C-x C-f' and then `/lib/libthr TAB', the path is
> > completed to `/lib/libthread_db.so.1'.
>
> > Also on my system, /usr/lib contains these three files:
>
> > libthread_db.so
> > libthreadweaver.so.4
> > libthreadweaver.so.4.1.0
>
> > When I type `C-x d' or `C-x C-f' and then `/usr/lib/libthr TAB', the
> > path is completed to `/usr/lib/libthreadweaver.so.4'. A second TAB
> > tells me this is complete but not unique and the *Completions* buffer
> > shows me (only) libthreadweaver.so.4 and libthreadweaver.so.4.1.0.
>
> > This is with -Q, and I get the same behavior with completion-styles set
> > to any of `basic', `emacs21', emacs22', or `partial-completion'.
Stefan wrote:
> This is the effect of having ".so" in the completion-ignored-extensions
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.
Steve Berman
In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
of 2008-10-25 on escher
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2008-10-31 21:42 Stephen Berman [this message]
2008-11-01 1:37 ` bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug? Stefan Monnier
2008-11-01 19:35 ` Stephen Berman
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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