From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: automate Emacs beautifyer ? Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:52 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412CB73C.9050506@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093450065 20426 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2004 16:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 18:07:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C00J4-0007Hd-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C00Ne-0001Bp-3M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:12:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de DzFswNe+XRChq0fzm4wCdQoKw5F5/U/CH5oEh209z18kBIus4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124930 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20278 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20278 Miguel Frasson wrote: > Oliver Scholz writes: >>No, you don't. After C-x C-f you can immediately type an absolute >>filename. Emacs will grok this and Do The Right Thing. > > Interesting! Thanks for the tip. Interesting, and fully documented in the File Names and Minibuffer File nodes of the Emacs manual: | Note that it is legitimate to type an absolute file name after you | enter the minibuffer, ignoring the presence of the default directory | name as part of the text. The final minibuffer contents may look | invalid, but that is not so. For example, if the minibuffer starts out | with `/usr/tmp/' and you add `/x1/rms/foo', you get | `/usr/tmp//x1/rms/foo'; but Emacs ignores everything through the first | slash in the double slash; the result is `/x1/rms/foo'. *Note | Minibuffer File::. The one thing the Minibuffer File node doesn't explain about that is the way it interacts with completion: typing a TAB erases the ignored part of the double slash path. -- Kevin Rodgers