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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 45402@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45402: 28.0.50; new completion inconvenience
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:34:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ktOh2-00018G-RI@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg7szwrn.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:28:43 +0100)

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  > Yes, that was something I took into account when I'vge created
  > "/media:". However, people typing "/dev TAB" will also be annoyed,
  > because it could complete to "/dev/" and to "/device:".

I thought about that and concluded that there is little occasion to
enter /dev in a minibuffer in Emacs.  (Have you ever done so?)
So it is a potential problem that won't actually happen, and that makes
it ok.

  > Meanwhile, I'm discussing with myself, whether "/mtp:" is acceptable. It
  > is the superior protocol. I hope I will win the discussion :-)

I see no problem with it.


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-27  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-24  5:53 bug#45402: 28.0.50; new completion inconvenience Richard Stallman
2020-12-24  5:58 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-24  8:53 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-24 14:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-24 17:02     ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-24 17:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25  4:42   ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 11:06     ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 10:22       ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 10:28         ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-27  5:34           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-12-25  5:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 11:17   ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-25 11:20   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-25 19:31     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 20:31       ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-25 22:11         ` bug#45402: Rename Tramp method "media" Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-25 22:35           ` Drew Adams
2020-12-25 23:38             ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-26  8:52               ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26  8:44             ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 18:53               ` Drew Adams
2020-12-26 11:44           ` Michael Albinus

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