Re: pcl-cvs's cvs-change-cvsroot allows local files only!

Tuesday, 3 November 1998


        Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes:

...
     Greg> Ick.  What do you propose?  I could make the
interactive
     Greg> specification "string" rather than "directory" but then
you
     Greg> don't get filename completion even when it is local.  M-x
     Greg> set-variable RET cvs-cvsroot will work.  Either way, setting
     Greg> cvs-cvsroot is evil; do you really want/need to do that? 
Use the (interactive FORM ) declaration to define your own completing
read.

Like this (untested)

  (interactive
	(list (completing-read "CVSroot:"
		(lambda (str)
			(unless (string-match ":" str) ;; Remote CVS
				(file-name-completion str))))))

or you want to call read-file-name-1

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