Subject: Re: bug#36945: 27.0.50; read-library-name

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 06:55:28 +0200

Fabrice Popineau <[email-masked]> writes:

> read-library-name offers <name> and <name>.elc for each library name.
> I expect that .elc names should not be offered.
>
> This is running `emacs -Q`.
>
> However, with a standard configuration using ELPA/MELPA, the situation
> is much worse, as I get stuff like:
>
> ../
> ../
> ../
> ./
> .dir-locals
> .elpaignore
> .elpaignore
> .git
> .git
>
> in the list of propositions. These are obviously not library names.

The function basically calls this function:

(locate-file-completion-table '("~/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/image") '(".el$") "" nil t)
=> ("compface.el" "compface.elc" "../" "gravatar.elc" "./" "gravatar.el")

And as we can see, the output from that function isn't quite what you'd
expect.  Isn't SUFFIXES supposed to limit the output?

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