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Add regexp-based version of completion-ignored-extensions

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Message #65 received at 16577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: vmalloc <at> gmail.com, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 16577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16577: Add regexp-based version of
 completion-ignored-extensions
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:23:11 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Oh, so this wouldn't be a plain regexp, but a ... mini-language where
> "/" has a special meaning?  I think that sounds pretty confusing.

By the way, it'd be nice to have a zero-width regexp matcher for "start
of file name component" (i.e., match after "/" or at the start of the
string).  We don't have that already anywhere, by any chance?

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