From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:55:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A717ABFD13D443059ED3400CBECE65FE@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8363arm741.fsf@gnu.org>
> > > I fixed the manual. The description now says
> > >
> > > (If the home directory is a root directory, it is not
> > > replaced with @samp{~}, because this does not make the result
> > > shorter on many systems.)
> >
> > Consider also making clearer the direction of substitution
> > (e.g a one-line example). As Stefan's own misstatement shows,
> > it's easy for readers to understand the substitution backwards.
>
> That is why the text quoted above makes a point of saying "replaced
> with", which should be unequivocal.
Yes, thanks, that helps (even though it is mentioned only wrt the root-dir
special casing).
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[not found] <83ab03mrlo.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-10-06 17:54 ` bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Drew Adams
2009-10-06 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-06 21:12 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 5:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07 7:50 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 10:30 ` bug#4654: marked as done (23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name) Emacs bug Tracking System
[not found] ` <1E8768BDE1464D019FC9EED701E222F4@us.oracle.com>
2009-10-07 17:44 ` bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-07 17:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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