From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'? Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:50:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192269047 16150 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2007 09:50:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stefan Monnier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 13 11:50:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Igddi-0003e0-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:50:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Igddc-0005Vq-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgddZ-0005Vk-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgddX-0005VM-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgddX-0005VJ-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgddW-0002AZ-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so1018739wxc for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:50:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=A5fofdo2dRSidBGj4/0GMNYwE9UoKOXKeykLFDsn4wU=; b=ND8a/90H+68VvF3lfjeDxJUGQPLoi5WPaj0dXZkF9VbrcL7zCYjN+mzpPhkeS0RYTxkBAc9ZxuSmYLnbRe3bW7CReyljj3LoV3QDRrGOyWptO2bkN7vt2o31fMorOynrPOY03jwycqCFTQUEamT0ZNzoXsObg45cSu5Y8YGZL8Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DazkoKJ9hOVeOKjtZqllzVWu9/tH6Q4trW0k9sl6+InlIxFu+2t54559xttisGpXphM+dVB5zXgClCqRj4O22QWyG2/4nudF/TdRumfp7CPUNsx7DyAz/p9BEuvTBNo7nLKTpajaHx+AYABepDZFCtRDBwVXkF4oCbxiGGqELrU= Original-Received: by 10.90.102.20 with SMTP id z20mr6106249agb.1192269022167; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.103.8 with HTTP; Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:50:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:80781 Archived-At: On 10/13/07, Stefan Monnier wrote: > This is definitely not the way directory-abbrev-alist was intended to be > used. `directory-abbrev-alist' should turn a valid filename into another > valid filename, the difference between the two being mostly cosmetic. FWIW, I use directory-abbrev-alist in my .emacs to show in the modeline aliases (which are not directories, but shorter arbitrary names) of the directory of the visited files. Juanma