Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: File name completion problem Message-ID: <373@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 14 Oct 88 20:56:01 GMT References: <381@ho7cad.ATT.COM> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Organization: If you worked here you'd go home by now Lines: 8 I think that the original poster's problem is not that he has a bad value for completion-ignored-extensions, but rather that he is unhappy that its value is not used when constructing the completiion list in the *Help* buffer when he types SPC, TAB or ? at a choice point. The value is only used when performing the completion, not when showing choices. ________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu