Re: Change default behavior of completion-ignored-extensions

[Andrew Korty]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Andrew Korty <ajk@iu.edu>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 09:43:44 -0500
>> 
>> Right you are -- I oversimplified the example.  I should have mentioned
>> ~/foo/ also has a CVS/ subdirectory.  So I get a "Completion List"
>> containing ./, ../, CVS/, and bar/.  I want CVS/ to be ignored like
>> ./ and ../ normally are.
>
> You still didn't tell what is your Emacs version :-(

Sorry, forgot.  It's 21.3.1.

> I'm guessing it's 21.2 or some such, since that version (and all older
> versions) had a bug in handling entries like "foo/" (meaning ignore
> the directory `foo') in completion-ignored-extensions: they wouldn't
> ignore these directories.  You will see that "CVS/" is already in
> completion-ignored-extensions.
>
> This bug is fixed in the CVS, so a future version will be free of it.

Thanks, I'll try the CVS version.

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Andrew J. Korty, Principal Security Engineer, GCIA, GCFA
Office of the Vice President for Information Technology
Indiana University