Subject: Re: bug#28615: [PATCH] Clarify what grep-read-files wants

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:55:26 +0300

> From: Allen Li <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:43:59 -0700
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Why did you not change the collection function?

Because there could be a file called literally like one of the
shorthands in grep-files-aliases, or whose name includes those
shorthands as a substring.

> As I noted in the bug, most of the completions that would be
> provided by read-file-name-internal don't work

IMO, that's okay, because wildcards cannot be meaningfully completed
on.