From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-name-shadow-mode Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:01:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200503180435.j2I4Z2R18621@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87is3p5zp2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200503191521.j2JFL8901509@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87r7ibziw6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200503200230.j2K2UvS03067@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111341666 10807 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 18:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:01:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 19:01:03 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4j6-0008G7-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:00:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD502-0001FD-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4zZ-00013K-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4zV-000108-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD4zU-0000z8-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD4jv-0003eR-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:01:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DD4jv-0006Yb-0f; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:01:27 -0500 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:33:13 +0900) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34831 The functionality of rfn-eshadow is quite useful to the vast majority of users, and indeed is much-requested, and you want to not enable it because you found a minor flaw? A flaw whose only effect is to make the prompt slightly less clear that it could be? I agree: this bug is not enough reason not to enable the feature. However, it would be nice to fix the bug. [I think it's probably possible to fix this -- e.g., by generating a regexp of all non-absolute environment variables and glomming it onto the rexexp used for filenames. But my basic point is that it scarcely matters.] Could you try fixing it that way?