From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: read-directory-name, the unloved
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:44:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r5bdz505.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj1ly2rq.fsf@gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:18:33 +0100")
Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
> Read-directory-name is basically a wrapper on read-file-name, using
> file-directory-p as PREDICATE. So if anything else, read-directory-name
> is more restrictive than read-file-name. In any case, since MUSTMATCH
> is nil, there's no obligation to choose a real file/directory, so
> PREDICATE is only used for completion purposes.
dired accepts more than just a directory as argument, and I would be
annoyed if I would not be able complete a non-directory.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-12 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 21:20 read-directory-name, the unloved Antoine Levitt
2011-02-10 21:29 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-11 8:54 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-12 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-12 10:18 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-12 14:44 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-02-12 15:12 ` Antoine Levitt
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