GNU bug report logs - #36945
27.0.50; read-library-name

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Message #11 received at 36945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36945 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#36945: 27.0.50; read-library-name
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:55:04 -0400

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

> (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?

In the context of general file name completion, I guess the idea is that
you might find files with any extension under a directory.  Doesn't make
so much sense for read-library-name though.

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