From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File modes facilities. Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:39 -0400 Message-ID: <873bmsdsat.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130090920 1611 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2005 18:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 23 20:08:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETkFw-0002HS-6O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:07:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETkFv-0002ya-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETkE6-0002ER-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ETkE4-0002DL-Eh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ETkE4-0002DH-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.54] (helo=tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ETkE3-0001PK-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.48.83.21]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051023180539.OMRW26102.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 637BDD72E3; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:05:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:39:07 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:44633 Archived-At: > AFAIK M-x load-library accepts and properly completes both kinds > of arguments. > Yes, it seems to. That's a change I had forgotten about. (In the old > days, load-library did no completion at all.) However, load-file only > reads file names, and only completes file names. > Could load-file now be an alias to load-library? > Don't load-file and load-library complete the file name differently? Yes, slightly. But if your file name starts with / or ~ (i.e. is an absolute file name, as is the default for `load-file' because of its default initial value) then the difference is minimal. Stefan