Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: File name completion problem Message-ID: <7418@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 12 Oct 88 00:44:05 GMT References: Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Distribution: gnu Organization: Freelance Software Consultant, Boston, Ma. Lines: 22 In article austin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Darren Austin) writes: > I am having a problem doing something in GNU Emacs 18.52 >[...] It would be really nice if I didn't have to see >*.o, and *.elc files. >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? Yes. Try (setq completion-ignored-extensions '(".elc" ".o")) In fact, there is something seriously botched with your copy of GNU emacs if the completion-ingnored-extensions don't already include the following: '(".o" ".elc" "~" ".bin" ".lbin" ".fasl" ".dvi" ".toc" ".log" ".aux" ".lof" ".blg" ".bbl" ".glo" ".idx" ".lot") -wolfgang --- Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (617) 267-4365 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang