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#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:01:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83ei8oln35.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3F8051724A4D4413A7B4CCC51ADFC1F6@us.oracle.com> <83bp3xohvm.fsf@gnu.org> <2AFD6A500A684D38948C9F1EFE6CF6B3@us.oracle.com> <837helnwp5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294417623 21516 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2011 16:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7777-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 07 17:26:59 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PbF9S-0001A8-MZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:26:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PbF9R-000351-Bh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:26:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54087 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PbF6r-0001IA-UP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:24:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PbF6b-0002j7-9M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PbF6b-0002iv-55 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PbEec-0005IZ-Kj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:55:02 -0500 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 7777 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 7777@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 7777-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D7777.129441565620311 (code D ref 7777); Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7777-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jan 2011 15:54:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PbEdr-0005HY-QA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PbEdp-0005HJ-9f for 7777-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:54:14 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LEN00M00TQUIE00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 7777-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:01:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.127.157]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LEN00MOHTUFIM00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:01:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:55:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:43183 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: <7777@debbugs.gnu.org> > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 20:12:33 -0800 > > > How about if we change the doc string to not sound like a stringent > > requirement, but rather as a "note"? > > That would be an improvement, thanks (the manual, likewise). I fixed it on the emacs-23 branch (revision 100362). > It would also help to explain why. Explaining why helps avoid any > misunderstanding wrt the older "rule", and it helps understand the new "note". I added a short explanation. > The other part of this bug is the location of the manual entry: Why the Elisp > manual? This is a user option. If we feel it is important to tell users about > this in a manual, why wouldn't the Emacs manual be the right one? Its description in the ELisp manual is due to the fact that the same node describes the abbreviate-file-name function, which uses this variable. As for repeating the description in the user manual, I'm not sure this variable is important enough. So I left this part out of the bugfix.