GNU bug report logs - #66224
[PATCH] Add optional PREDICATE argument to read-directory-name

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>

Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:20:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 31.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Joseph Turner <joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: "Joseph Turner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
 text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>, 66224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 philipk <at> posteo.net
Subject: Re: bug#66224: [PATCH] Add optional PREDICATE argument to
 read-directory-name
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:20:27 -0700

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> You know that the predicate will be ignored when MUSTMATCH is t?
> The behavior is not different than for `read-file-name'.

I'm not sure what you mean. In both of the following examples, PREDICATE
is used to narrow the completion candidates to only empty directories:

(read-directory-name "Prompt: " "~/" nil t nil #'directory-empty-p)
(read-directory-name "Prompt: " "~/" nil nil nil #'directory-empty-p)

Thank you!

Joseph
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