From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation of `file-name-completion' is somewhat confusing
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:39:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAF+z6H4Vt-ycOF6Xf-aS_9Cm3-aaHoy6mJ+AbHU=G0=oT8aCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83li6gkpb2.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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?
Well, I misunderstood it. I thought the "expanded absolute file name"
is for FILENAME, so the first version has only one argument: FILENAME
(in absolute form).
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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2013-06-12 2:07 Documentation of `file-name-completion' is somewhat confusing Xue Fuqiao
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