Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: a bug in the function file-name-completion Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 19:41:40 GMT References: <8908281533.AA14144@nc.MIT.EDU> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Distribution: gnu Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 25 In-reply-to: premise!hugh%nc.MIT.EDU@EDDIE.MIT.EDU's message of 28 Aug 89 15:33:43 GMT In article <8908281533.AA14144@nc.MIT.EDU> premise!hugh%nc.MIT.EDU@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Hugh Secker-Walker) writes: > (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" M-x describe-variable completion-ignored-extensions 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. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{mcvax,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------