Re: Bug in file name completion

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:45:44 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> 
> >      c:/temp/eclean/
> >      c:/temp/ecvs/
> >
> >    When I do
> >
> >     C-x C-f c:/temp/, TAB
> >
> >    it just completes to "c:/temp/eclean" instead of showing the 
> >    alternatives.
> >
> >I wonder if that is due to spuriously matching the "CVS/" element of
> >completion-ignored-extensions.  Maybe we need to change that to "/CVS/".
> >  
> >
> The documentation says that
> 
>     Directories are ignored if they match any string in this list which
>     ends in a slash.
> 
> It does not say that directories ending in any of those strings are 
> ignored. However the code in file_name_completion (in dired.c) looks too 
> me like it ignores directories ending in those strings.
> 
> Which is the intended behaviour?

Wed had a thread about this in the past.  It started in the end of
December 2003 and continued in January 2004.  The subject was "CVS
directories in completion-ignored-extensions".  The "/CVS/" solution
was proposed then, but Richard proposed a different solution that he
liked better.

I suggest we read that thread before deciding what to do with this.