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Re: [PATCH] Add a new user option 'ido-big-directories'.


From: Philipp Stephani
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new user option 'ido-big-directories'.
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:10:11 +0200

Am Mi., 17. Apr. 2019 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>:
>
> Philipp Stephani <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > This provides an alternative to 'ido-max-directory-size', for
> > directories that are statically known to be too big for Ido
> > completion.
> >
> > * lisp/ido.el (ido-big-directories): New user option.
> > (ido-directory-too-big-p): Use it.
>
> What this option does is to revert to non-ido completion when the
> regexp matches the directory name, it has nothing to do with the
> directory being big.
>
> I suggest that you rename the user option accordingly and move its use
> outside of ido-directory-too-big-p.

This is a semantical difference: it's specifically intended to mark
directories as big, and Ido shows "too big" when attempting to
complete such a directory, so I think the name is warranted.



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