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25.0.94; Directories in completion-ignored-extensions not ignored

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Message #17 received at 23631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 23631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23631: 25.0.94;
 Directories in completion-ignored-extensions not ignored
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:11:58 +0300

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 15:32:07 +0300
> 
> Evaluate something like
> 
> (file-name-all-completions "" "~/.emacs.d/")
> 
> On my machine, this returns a list which includes ".git/". It should
> not, however, because ".git/" is in completion-ignored-extensions.

This works as designed: completion-ignored-extensions only affects
file-name-completion, but not file-name-all-completions.  I've just
pushed a fix for the doc string of file-name-all-completions.  (The
ELisp manual correctly says that the variable has no effect in your
case.)

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