GNU bug report logs - #16577
Add regexp-based version of completion-ignored-extensions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rotem Yaari <vmalloc <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:16:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 20937

Found in versions 24.3, 24.4

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Message #29 received at 16577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: vmalloc <at> gmail.com, 16577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16577: 24.3;
 Ido omitting directories with similar names to other directories
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:15:20 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Then completion-ignored-extensions is not the right mechanism for
> ignoring those directories.
>
> (I'm quite sure that this was discussed in some distant past, just not
> about Git.)

Sure it was, and it was literally the exact same problem three years
ago, but it suffered from the emacs-devel disease (talked about, but
nothing ever happened, AFAIK):

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00413.html

What Someone needs to do:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00459.html
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 34 days ago.

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