Re: Q on read-file-name and completion-ignored-extensions

[Stefan Monnier]

>        This variable does not affect lists of possible completions,
>        but does affect the commands that actually do completions.

> Here, you're parroting what I said in my first post, where I quoted the same
> doc string. That doc string contradicts the `read-file-name' behavior, at
> least by my reading of it. You say "it works", but by my reading it doesn't
> work, as I pointed out: `minibuffer-complete' is a "command that actually
> does completion", but it does not respect this variable when you use it in
> the context of `read-file-name'.

minibuffer-complete doesn't only do completion.  It also lists
possible completions.  When it does completion it does take
completion-ignored-extensions into account.  When it lists completions
it doesn't.  Just like the docstring says.


        Stefan