Re: Suggestion on completion

["Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com>]

>> > name would no longer make sense.  So I think it is better to add
>> > a new variable `completion-ignored-names'.  Those names would be
>> > checked for an exact match.
>>
>>It could be a regexp rather than a list of precise names.
>
>Suppose we add a variable `completion-ignored-names-regexp' that a
>name would not be provided as a first completion if it matches one of
>the names in this variable and there are other names that do not
>match any names in this variable.
>
>Then we can say that, the cases that `completion-ignored-extensions'
>and `completion-ignored-names' can handle are only special cases, or
>``subsets'' that `completion-ignored-names-regexp' can handle.
>
>How about adding the variable `completion-ignored-names-regexp', and
>making `completion-ignored-extensions' a deprecated variable and the
>same as `completion-ignored-names-regexp'?

Please give me suggestions on this design, especially on making the
deprecated variable.  I'm not sure whether it is Ok along with Emacs'
policy, and I think Stefan's way is really elegant.  I need an
approach from discussing, or I cannot start writing.

Thanks.

Regards,
Guanpeng Xu

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