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: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:44:47 -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> <200503202111.j2KLBWl08294@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200503202125.j2KLPGs08486@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <877jk1w1xq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200503212224.j2LMOmp27431@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111524806 2743 80.91.229.2 (22 Mar 2005 20:53:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 21:53:25 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDqH2-0003qI-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:46:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDqYO-0007zz-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDqUk-00041e-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:00:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DDqUc-0003xb-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDqUc-0003wt-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DDqF6-000725-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:44:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DDqF5-0000ms-GK; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:44:47 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:00:57 -0500) 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:34996 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34996 But /home//:~//info will *not* be treated like /:~//info. Whether it's a bug or feature, I don't know, but I find it surprising. I agree it would be more natural to change this. Just because /: suppresses special treatment of following text does not mean previous text must suppress special treatment of /:. It has some chance of breaking something, but I think that is not likely to happen.