Re: Bug in file name completion

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Wed had a thread about this in the past.  It started in the end of
    December 2003 and continued in January 2004.  The subject was "CVS
    directories in completion-ignored-extensions".  The "/CVS/" solution
    was proposed then, but Richard proposed a different solution that he
    liked better.

I think the other solution was this:

    I've always thought it would be nice, instead of having multiple variables
    each of which contain a different types of entry, to have something like
    `completion-ignored-names', where each element could be either: a string
    (which is matched using just `equal'), or a list like (regexp REGEXP),
    which the matcher would treat accordingly.

I still think that is a good idea.

    Reading the thread it seems to me that everyone liked Miles suggestion: 
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-01/msg00093.html

    However a better name for the function were needed according to Richard. 
    Maybe string-match-any?

I think string-match-extended is a better name for it.
It probably should be implemented in C, for use by completion.