From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tilde in dired default-directory but not elsewhere Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:56:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87ion6v2k9.fsf@web.de> References: <87fvickfy2.fsf@debian.uxu> <874myqqvfn.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404928649 24667 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2014 17:57:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 17:57:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 09 19:57:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X4w7G-0003WC-Lu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:57:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4w7G-0003I0-Cm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4w6o-0003HF-2H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4w6i-0008N0-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4w6h-0008Mm-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X4w6c-00032j-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:56:34 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.217.127.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:56:34 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:56:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WTemn6siMKMy3538Zrmxc5SJtB0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98602 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Now it will be interesting to see how much work is > required to make it work the right way for dired and > sudo buffers, not to mention all the "file-less" > modes... What use case do you have in mind? Can you give an example? Because, commands reading in file names typically call `read-file-name-default`, which uses `abbreviate-file-name`. That means, dired for example should never prompt with /home/user/... Michael.