From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:47:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvocojbvxn.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2C5117E03B57417289F8B3E16B1B8B61@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:12:51 -0700")
> ~/foo/ tells you that foo is directly under the home directory.
Actually, you can see right there: "~/foo" is longer than "/foo", so it
would be wrong for abbreviate-file-name to do such a replacement, since
it wouldn't abbreviate.
> it's not a toss-up, since the _purpose_ of the function is to use ~.
No it's not. The purpose is to abbreviate, i.e. make shorter.
> Anyway, this bug report is about the doc - please clear that up.
Patch welcome. I myself have no idea what wording would please you
better, and the current wording is crystal clear to my mind.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 5:47 UTC|newest]
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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 [this message]
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
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