From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:39:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> <20051112163852.GA11661@www.trapp.net> <874q6hlqzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4377B512.3050303@soem.dk> <43791357.8090803@soem.dk> <437A15B0.5080303@soem.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132081160 577 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2005 18:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 19:59:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5z7-0006AL-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:56:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5z6-0000se-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5yu-0000sW-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5yt-0000sH-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:56:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5yt-0000sE-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ec5ys-0008RW-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5k4-0000U9-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:41:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:41:16 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:41:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <437A15B0.5080303@soem.dk> 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:46039 Archived-At: Lars Hansen wrote: > 3. But if you want a listing of /etc, then you don't want to use the > minibuffer contents "/usr/local/" at all. To avoid forcing the user to > delete the minibuffer contents, Emacs allows you to just type "/etc". > This gives the string "/usr/local//etc". When you hit RTN, by magic, you > get a listing of /etc. I always type TAB before RET when entering a file name, so that (1) I know what I'm getting and (2) the actual file name is added to the history variable instead of the minibuffer contents. -- Kevin Rodgers