From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: ffap when dir exists but file doesn't Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 04:20:45 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87of4wp36q.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046484335 872 80.91.224.249 (1 Mar 2003 02:05:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 02:05:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gnucap@packages.debian.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18owNZ-0000Dp-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owNh-000882-06 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:05:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owNa-00087A-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owNZ-00086z-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18owNZ-00086s-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:05:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18owND-0000C7-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:05:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18owNC-0000By-00 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:05:10 +0100 Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4530 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4530 With ffap installed, reading a man page, my cursor is on /usr/share/doc/gnucap/bugs but the file "bugs" doesn't exist but the directory does. However ffap doesn't help out by prompting for that directory, but just prompts for $PWD. Maybe there's a variable to control that, but one has to dig thru ffap.el to find it, it's not in Info. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780