changeset 39879:fba70cf81a87

Document the significance of the trailing slash in elements of completion-ignored-extensions.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:09:26 +0000
parents d90eb1d4b881
children de2f745df406
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Sat Oct 13 11:57:52 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Oct 13 12:09:26 2001 +0000
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@
 `${foo}' in the specified new value of the environment variable.  To
 include a `$' in the value, use `$$'.
 
+** File-name completion can now ignore directories.
+If an element of the list in `completion-ignored-extensions' ends in a
+slash `/', it indicates a subdirectory that should be ignored when
+completing file names.  Elements of `completion-ignored-extensions'
+which do not end in a slash are never considered when a completion
+candidate is a directory.
+
 ** New user option `inhibit-startup-buffer-menu'.
 When loading many files, for instance with `emacs *', Emacs normally
 displays a buffer menu.  This option turns the buffer menu off.