From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: substitute-in-file-name and "$" Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:53:31 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1057517903 3596 80.91.224.249 (6 Jul 2003 18:58:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 06 20:58:20 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ZEiK-0000vl-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:58:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19ZErp-0007Dx-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 21:08:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ZEiX-0004rv-37 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ZEeG-0002qg-HY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ZEdw-0002Y1-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19ZEdk-0002Gk-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:53:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19ZEdf-0000Me-0s; Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:53:31 -0400 Original-To: Michael Albinus In-reply-to: (message from Michael Albinus on Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:44:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15429 What I'ld like to know: Is it a general rule, that substitute-in-file-name can be called only once for a given file name? Yes, I think that is the idea. I will document that. Then it should be documented in the Elisp manual, and it is a bug in PC-do-completion. Or is it a more general design problem? I think this is a bug in PC-do-completion. Would someone like to fix it?