Re: Documentation of `file-name-completion' is somewhat confusing

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:07:37 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden>
> 
> In (info "(elisp) File Name Completion"):
>  -- Function: file-name-completion filename directory &optional
>           predicate
> [...]
>      If PREDICATE is non-`nil' then it ignores possible completions that
>      don't satisfy PREDICATE, after calling that function with one
>      argument, the expanded absolute file name.
> 
> And in the doc string of this function:
>     If PREDICATE is non-nil, call PREDICATE with each possible
>     completion (in absolute form) and ignore it if PREDICATE returns
>     nil.
> 
> It seems to me that the arguments of PREDICATE described by these two
> paragraphs don't agree with each other: the first one is "the expanded
> absolute file name", but the second one is "each possible completion".
> IMHO the latter is more appropriate.  Or maybe I got something wrong.
> Any ideas?

Why do you think that "expanded absolute file name" of a "possible
completion" and "each possible completion (in absolute form)" are
anything but the same thing?  Where exactly do you see the difference
between these two?