Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!rutgers!apple!vsi1!ames!fxgrp!ljz From: ljz%fxgrp.fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: File name completion problem Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 88 21:46:35 GMT References: Sender: ljz@fxgrp.UUCP Distribution: gnu Organization: FX Development Group, Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 29 In-reply-to: austin@iris.ucdavis.edu's message of 10 Oct 88 08:08:37 GMT In article austin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Darren Austin) writes: > ... When doing filename completion >it would be really nice if I could filter out what is considered >a completion. ... > > (setq completion-ignored-extensions '(".elc .o")) > >But it still showed *.elc files in the completion. Am I doing >something wrong here? This should not be a list consisting of a single string, but rather, a list of strings: (setq completion-ignored-extensions '(".elc" ".o")) This is how it is defined in loaddefs.el. >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? ... I'd like to know how to do this, too. -- Lloyd Zusman Internet: ljz@fx.com Master Byte Software or ljz%fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov Los Gatos, California or fxgrp!ljz@ames.arc.nasa.gov "We take things well in hand." uucp: ...!ames!fxgrp!ljz [ our Internet connection is down: use uucp or mail to the entry above it ]