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

[Santiago Vila]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Bruno Haible wrote:

> 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.

Thanks a lot. Since this is something that the user can change anyway,
and I think it is not important enough to deviate from upstream, I'm
closing this bug.