From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Bacic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: find-file completion tweak Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:48:08 +1000 Message-ID: <4882DFA8.7050901@pobox.com> References: Reply-To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216536672 27250 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2008 06:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:51:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 20 08:52:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKSm0-00046g-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:52:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKSl6-0007Wk-90 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKSkq-0007WE-5l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKSkm-0007U2-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49522 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKSkm-0007Tz-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:33535) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKSkl-0003MW-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19] helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKSkR-0003zY-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2858A3CE5F for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (202.7.251.96.dynamic.rev.aanet.com.au [202.7.251.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68A543CE5E for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:50:17 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1D50E310-5628-11DD-BB13-CE28B26B55AE-14340206!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55744 Archived-At: (file-name-shadow-mode 1) does something similar it was a dark and stormy night when Eric Roode said, > Once upon a time, I could have sworn that find-file completion had a feature > whereby if the first character you typed was a / or a ~, the entire default > directory was erased and replaced with the / or ~. This was terribly convenient. > > Right now, if you want to open an absolute file name (or one relative to your > home directory), you have to hit C-a C-k after you type C-x C-f and before you > type / or ~. Annoying. > > Did I dream this feature? Did it go away? How can I make find-file behave this > way again? > > Thanks, > Eric >