Re: Bug#316803: gettext-el: completion ignore .gmo (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Kevin Ryde wrote:

> It'd be nice if .gmo files were ignored for completion, so .po files
> can be hit when there's both in a po subdir.  Perhaps the following in
> 50gettext.el,
>
>       ;; these already in emacs 22, add them here for emacs 21
>       (add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".gmo")
>       (add-to-list 'completion-ignored-extensions ".mo")

This is not universally desirable. In other words, it trades comfort
against surprise.

I'm using a shell (bash) where .o files are ignored in the completion,
with the intent of making it more easy for the user to pick the .c or .cc
file. But more often than desirable, it surprises me ["oh, the .o file is
not there any more! How come? ls -l => ah, here it is. Stupid completion
rule!"].

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Bruno