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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: vmalloc <at> gmail.com, rgm <at> gnu.org, 16577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#16577: Add regexp-based version of
 completion-ignored-extensions
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:57:32 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,  vmalloc <at> gmail.com,  Eli Zaretskii
>  <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  16577 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:23:11 +0100
> 
> 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?

Regular expressions don't understand file names, they are just strings
as far as regexps are concerned.
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 34 days ago.

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