Variable: ido-big-directories

ido-big-directories is a customizable variable defined in ido.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

List of directory pattern strings that should be considered big.

Ido won't attempt to list the contents of directories matching any of these regular expressions when completing file names.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 27.1.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 27.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/ido.el.gz
(defcustom ido-big-directories nil
  "List of directory pattern strings that should be considered big.
Ido won't attempt to list the contents of directories matching
any of these regular expressions when completing file names."
  :type '(repeat regexp)
  :version "27.1")