From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:44:30 +0200 Message-ID: <8363arm741.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2C5117E03B57417289F8B3E16B1B8B61@us.oracle.com> <0F408BF94DA24CFCB960917D03E903BA@us.oracle.com> <83ab03mrlo.fsf@gnu.org> <1E8768BDE1464D019FC9EED701E222F4@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254938855 31039 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2009 18:07:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 07 20:07:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1Mvav7-0003RP-3Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:07:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvav6-0004Lt-M5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvauz-0004J9-Ur for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvauv-00047l-1N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34252 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mvauu-000479-Pt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:56317) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mvaut-0002Xx-N1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n97I79uo029128; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:07:09 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n97Ho51S025845; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:50:05 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:50:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs 2Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:50:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4654 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 4654-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B4654.125493759925630 (code B ref 4654); Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:50:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4654) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Oct 2009 17:46:39 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il (mtaout5.012.net.il [84.95.2.13]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n97HkaDx025623 for <4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:46:38 -0700 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KR500K00NUXFU00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for 4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:46:30 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.84.229]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KR500CV9O1ID450@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:46:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <1E8768BDE1464D019FC9EED701E222F4@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:17 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:31767 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:19:06 -0700 > > > I fixed the manual. The description now says > > > > (If the home directory is a root directory, it is not > > replaced with @samp{~}, because this does not make the result > > shorter on many systems.) > > > > I hope this is something everybody can live with. > > Thank you. > > Consider also making clearer the direction of substitution (e.g a one-line > example). As Stefan's own misstatement shows, it's easy for readers to > understand the substitution backwards. That is why the text quoted above makes a point of saying "replaced with", which should be unequivocal.