From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thr4wn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: find-file completion tweak Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <65c663ef-5f71-4d04-8b4a-fc4eaf042a4a@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216676468 12845 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 21:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:41:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 23:41:57 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 1KL38j-0000IO-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KL37p-0002ZS-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.254.27.75 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216675328 28162 127.0.0.1 (21 Jul 2008 21:22:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.254.27.75; posting-account=yciHbgoAAAC-yiSCERRTWUTnOnw8WIwj User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Iceweasel/2.0.0.14 (Debian-2.0.0.14-2), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160422 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:55770 Archived-At: On Jul 19, 3:18 pm, "Eric Roode" 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