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From: austin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Darren Austin)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: File name completion problem
Message-ID: <AUSTIN.88Oct10010837@iris.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 88 08:08:37 GMT
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Hi there,
	I am having a problem doing something in GNU Emacs 18.52
that I think should be very easy.  When doing filename completion
it would be really nice if I could filter out what is considered
a completion.  It would be really nice if I didn't have to see
*.o, and *.elc files (files which I would never want to edit
directly) in the completion.  I found the variable
"completion-ignored-extensions" which is supposed to be a list of
string endings that I do not want to see in my completions.  I
tried the following from my *scratch* buffer:

	(setq completion-ignored-extensions '(".elc .o"))

But it still showed *.elc files in the completion.  Am I doing
something wrong here?

Also, it would be real nice to be able to ignore dot files and
directories as well.  Is there an easy way to do this?  If not, I
am willing to write the elisp code necessary to filter the
completions, but I would rather not re-invent the wheel.

Thanks for your time,
--Darren
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Darren Austin                         | "Memo to myself:
UC Davis Division of Computer Science |    Do the dumb things I gotta do;
austin@clover.ucdavis.edu	      |    Touch the puppet head"
				      |        --They Might Be Giants
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