Re: Sloppy Directory Completion

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:53:21 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> >> > Why doesn't Emacs complete on directories only in for example dired
> >> > (C-x d)?
> >> > Is this a bug or a todo?
> >> I think it's a bug.
> > Many times I do completion on something like "*use*" just to find the
> > group of files I want see and than use something like "bsw2-use*subgroup"
> > as the actual argument to `dired'.
> [...]
> > May be completion of directory names ONLY should be an option, but
> > I disagree strongly that it be the default completion.
>
> The way I see it, completion for dired should work as follows:
> if we can complete to a set of directories, then only complete to
> those directories, but if there is no directory to which to complete,
> then complete against files.
> So in your above example, it would work as you want at the condition
> that there is no directory which matches "*use*".

Sounds good. So move it from "bug" to "todo".

Ehud.


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