Re: Bug in file name completion

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii 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.
>  
Reading the thread it seems to me that everyone liked Miles suggestion: 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-01/msg00093.html

However a better name for the function were needed according to Richard. 
Maybe string-match-any?

Handa said that maybe this needed to be implemented in C.