On 01/21/2015 11:35 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21 2015, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
>> We can provide the default-directory in M-n or something like that, but
>> Daniel's patch is good.
> 
> What about the following patch, which would also provide that behaviour
> while making it obvious how to work around this regr^H^H^H^H new feature
> in a not too inconvenient way and get the current behaviour back, viz.,
> by using C-k to kill all trailing "../" components.

That seems like it'd confuse users. Are we okay with just repurposing
the prefix argument? Does anyone actually use the existing ability to
force a particular backend?