find-file could even delete leading spaces...

find-file could even delete leading spaces...

[Dan Jacobson]

When cutting and pasting into the minibuffer, sometimes I end up
sending in effect
(find-file " /mdk/boot")
or maybe even with the space at the end.

Being that find-file is so user friendly that even /bla/bla//urg/urg
becomes /urg/urg, perhaps its friendliness should be enhanced to find
the file I really want, at least interactively.  On the other hand,
this might not be smart...

Because I was using cut and paste I was not stopped during entry as
would have happened if I was typing the filename in.
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Re: find-file could even delete leading spaces...

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> When cutting and pasting into the minibuffer, sometimes I end up
> sending in effect
> (find-file " /mdk/boot")
> or maybe even with the space at the end.
> 
> Being that find-file is so user friendly that even /bla/bla//urg/urg
> becomes /urg/urg, perhaps its friendliness should be enhanced to find
> the file I really want, at least interactively.  On the other hand,
> this might not be smart...


I don't think it would be smart, since (if I recall correctly) "...//" and "...~/"

are handled at a very low level.  Treating "... /" the same way might make it
impossible to work with files and directories that have a leading space in their
name.


> Because I was using cut and paste I was not stopped during entry as
> would have happened if I was typing the filename in.


I've gotten in the habit of typing TAB before RET, to make sure I've pasted a

valid file name.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>