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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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: 66224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, joseph <at> breatheoutbreathe.in
Subject: bug#66224: [PATCH] Add optional PREDICATE argument to read-directory-name
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 03:23:50 +0200

Joseph Turner via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 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)

In the second version also non-empty directories will be accepted.

Michael.
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