Re: ignored files during TAB expansion

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1585.1075420294.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:

> OK, .log was recently removed from completion-ignored-extensions in
> Emacs CVS.  Perhaps, .pdf and .dvi should be removed too, because
> these extensions are quite interesting for users.

I think maybe a better solution is for completion in shell commands 
*not* to use this list.  It was designed to filter out files that you 
wouldn't want to read with find-file.  But when you're specifying 
filename arguments to shell commands, the set of useful files is 
dependent on the command you're applying to them.  If it's a basic 
command like mv or rm, there's no reason to filter out anything.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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