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23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 1288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1288: 23.0.60; completion-ignored-extensions doc bug?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:37:16 -0400

> Thanks, and sorry for forgetting about that.  (But in rereading the doc
> string now, it seems either ambiguously worded or even wrong:

> "Completion ignores file names ending in any string in this list.
> It does not ignore them if all possible completions end in one of
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> these strings or when displaying a list of completions.
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> It ignores directory names if they match any string in this list which
> ends in a slash."

> This seems to be saying that the *Completions* buffer should display the
> file names libthread_db-1.0.so and libthread_db.so in the above
> scenarios, but that is not what happens.  Or am I misconstruing the doc
> string?  If so, perhaps it can be rephrased more clearly.

In your examples, you hit "/usr/lib/libthr TAB" which does not display
the completions for "libthr" but instead performs the completion.
You only get a *Completions* buffer on the second TAB, at which point
the minibuffer input is "/usr/lib/libthreadweaver.so.4" for which
there's no *.so file to display any more.
If instead of the first TAB you press ? then you'll see the .so
file listed.


        Stefan

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