Re: eshell completion: what on earth is /davs and why is it back?

>>>>> Ethan Azariah <[email protected]> writes:

    > i started using emacs a few months ago after a very long break.  i
    > use eshell heavily.  i'm having a strange issue with directory
    > completion.  i keep all my junk mounted on /data.  probably over
    > 50% of my cd commands begin with /data, which i type as /da<tab>.
    > this is muscle memory i've had since 2004.  when i started using
    > emacs a few months ago, eshell would suggest nonexistent
    > directories /dav and /davs in addition to /data.  before i could
    > complain, (it's hard for me to write emails like this,) it
    > stopped.  just now, it started doing it again.

    > so, i have to ask, *why,* *for the love of free software,* is
    > eshell interrupting my typing to offer spurious dirnames which
    > have never existed on any computer i've ever owned?

    > copypaste, showing the dirs are really not there:

    > Welcome to the Emacs shell

    > /data/games/transport-tycoon $ ls / bin data etc initrd.img lib
    > lost+found mnt proc run srv tmp var vmlinuz.old boot dev home
    > initrd.img.old lib64 media opt root sbin sys usr vmlinuz
    > /data/games/transport-tycoon $ cd /davs No such directory: /davs
    > /data/games/transport-tycoon [1] $ cd /dav No such directory: /dav
    > /data/games/transport-tycoon [1] $ cd /data /data $

Would customising the variable `eshell-cmpl-dir-ignore' help?

Colin Baxter.