Variable: completion-regexp-list

completion-regexp-list is a variable defined in minibuf.c.

Value

nil

Documentation

List of regexps that should restrict possible completions.

The basic completion functions only consider a completion acceptable if it matches all regular expressions in this list, with case-fold-search bound to the value of completion-ignore-case. See Info node (elisp)Basic Completion, for a description of these functions.

Do not set this variable to a non-nil value globally, as that is not safe and will probably cause errors in completion commands. This variable should be only let-bound to non-nil values around calls to basic completion functions like try-completion and all-completions.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.23.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/minibuf.c
  DEFVAR_LISP ("completion-regexp-list", Vcompletion_regexp_list,
	       doc: /* List of regexps that should restrict possible completions.
The basic completion functions only consider a completion acceptable
if it matches all regular expressions in this list, with
`case-fold-search' bound to the value of `completion-ignore-case'.
See Info node `(elisp)Basic Completion', for a description of these
functions.

Do not set this variable to a non-nil value globally, as that is not
safe and will probably cause errors in completion commands.  This
variable should be only let-bound to non-nil values around calls to
basic completion functions like `try-completion' and `all-completions'.  */);