Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!rochester!bbn!bbn.com!akhanna From: akhanna@bbn.com (Atul Khanna) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: File name completion problem Message-ID: <30741@bbn.COM> Date: 12 Oct 88 14:33:11 GMT References: <30728@bbn.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: akhanna@alexander.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Atul Khanna) Distribution: gnu Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 17 In article <30728@bbn.COM> mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes: >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). > In fact, emacs will complete on files with extensions appearing in completion-ignored-extensions if they are the only possible completions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atul C Khanna (akhanna@bbn.com) BBN Communications Corporation 150 CambridgePark Drive Cambridge, MA 02140 UUCP: ..!{decvax, wjh12, harvard}!bbnccv!akhanna