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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: NOT A BUG... (was Re: a bug in the function file-name-completion)
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Date: 29 Aug 89 23:08:28 GMT
References: <8908281533.AA14144@nc.MIT.EDU>
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In-reply-to: premise!hugh%nc.MIT.EDU@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Hugh Secker-Walker)

In article <8908281533.AA14144@nc.MIT.EDU>, premise!hugh%nc (Hugh Secker-Walker) writes:
| ---------- Buffer: *Directory* ----------
| Directory /tmp/
| 1989Aug23inctar
| 1989Aug24inctar
| SUPDUP009745
| lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.lin
| lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.log
| tlog
| ---------- Buffer: *Directory* ----------
| 
| (file-name-completion "lg" dir)
| "lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.lin"
| 
| The completion should have been
| "lg.No=8.Nf=256.C=1.25e-11.R=4.75e9.a=2.86.l"

Nope.  See (describe-variable 'completion-ignored-extensions) ==>
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completion-ignored-extensions's value is (".o" ".elc" "~" ".bin" ".lbin" ".fasl" ".dvi" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".lof" ".blg" ".bbl" ".glo" ".idx" ".lot")

Documentation:
*Completion ignores filenames ending in any string in this list.
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Notice that ".log" is in the list.

It's a documented feature... not a bug.

Just another Elisp hacker,
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