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bug#25807: 24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is t
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25807: 24.5; List-Directory closes with error when invalid path is typed instead of prompting the user to fix it |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Mar 2017 22:45:14 +0300 |
> From: Andreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>
> Cc: Colin <my.old.email.sucked@gmail.com>, 25807@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 20:28:18 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > [...] We are looking for a way to reject non-existing directories, but
> > accept existing ones and wildcards, when the user types RET in these
> > cases.
>
> I think in order to do that we would have to figure out whether a given
> filename expands to some existing filenames or not, and this also for
> handled ones. The last part of which seems to be difficult.
Why is the last part difficult? directory-files already supports
that, doesn't it? And completion examines matching files as part of
its thing, so I hoped there's already an option to get that for free.
> A more simpler and less general approach would be the addition of a
> user-option, i.e. list-directory-use-wildcards.
The function in question already supports widlcards, so moving that
support to a new option would be a step backward, I think.