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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: File name completion problem
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Date: 12 Oct 88 13:08:15 GMT
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From article <AUSTIN.88Oct10092531@iris.ucdavis.edu>, by austin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Darren Austin):
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> 	(setq completion-ignored-extensions '(".elc" ".o"))
> 
> but it still doesn't filter out *.elc or *.o files.  Any ideas?
> --Darren

What behavior are you expecting?  Setting the variable as above will NOT
prevent the ignored files from showing up in a *Completions* list (via
the '?' key == minibuffer-completion-help).  What it WILL do is
eliminate them as candidates for file name completion (via the TAB key
== minibuffer-complete).

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