From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:44:39 +0100 Message-ID: <43791357.8090803@soem.dk> References: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> <20051112163852.GA11661@www.trapp.net> <874q6hlqzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4377B512.3050303@soem.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132008494 11409 80.91.229.2 (14 Nov 2005 22:48:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 14 23:48:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebn4i-00013B-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:45:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebn4i-0006bn-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:45:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebn4A-0006b9-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:44:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebn48-0006ad-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebn48-0006aa-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.99.225.245] (helo=odin.broadcom.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ebn47-00038A-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from pppoe3-ves.broadcom.dk ([212.99.255.42] helo=[10.17.1.239]) by odin.broadcom.dk with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1Ebmw6-000240-C7; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:36:26 +0100 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45975 Archived-At: Robert J. Chassell wrote: >As far as I understand you, the current interface has been doing what >you say for several decades. > > Yes, but only because Emacs interprets the minibuffer contents as /foo although it is /tmp//foo. IMHO that is not very elegant. And it does not work as a general approach: Consider some command with initial value foo, and imagine the user types bar. How would Emacs know if he means foobar (minibuffer contents) or just bar?