From: Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-file completion tweak
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:22:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65c663ef-5f71-4d04-8b4a-fc4eaf042a4a@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15060.1216536045.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Jul 19, 3:18 pm, "Eric Roode" <eric.roode.em...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
What version of emacs are you using? I'm have version 22.2.1 on Debian
(compiled from source) and that's what mine does by default, which
makes me curious why yours isn't working.
-Thr4wn
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2008-07-21 21:22 ` Thr4wn [this message]
2008-07-28 18:21 ` find-file completion tweak Eric Roode
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2008-07-28 18:46 ` Lowell Gilbert
2008-07-19 19:18 Eric Roode
2008-07-20 6:48 ` Bernardo Bacic
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