From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:23:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874q6hlqzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051112163852.GA11661@www.trapp.net> (Tomas Zerolo's message of "Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:38:52 +0100")
tomas@tuxteam.de (Tomas Zerolo) writes:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:46:58AM +0059, Han Boetes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you try to open /tmp//foo emacs will try to open /foo, of
>> course this is a great feature, but it forgets that /tmp//foo is a
>> valid notation of /tmp/foo.
>
> To interpret /tmp//foo is surprising to me. For example, my OS says
> /tmp//foo --> /tmp/foo, as I think most Unixen do (I think POSIX
> dictates that).
The reason is convenience. This allows you to enter a new filename
without having to erase the default offered in the minibuffer. (A
similar example: /tmp/~/foo goes to ~/foo). I use this feature all
the time.
If you want to visit /tmp/foo, might I suggest entering /tmp/foo
instead of /tmp//foo?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-12 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-12 10:47 opening /tmp//foo doesn't work Han Boetes
2005-11-12 14:40 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-12 15:15 ` Han Boetes
2005-11-12 15:55 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-12 16:11 ` Han Boetes
2005-11-12 16:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-12 16:38 ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-11-12 17:23 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2005-11-13 21:50 ` Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Lars Hansen
2005-11-13 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 22:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-13 22:57 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 23:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-15 5:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 0:34 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-14 0:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-13 23:22 ` Start value in minibuffer Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 23:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-14 0:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-14 2:35 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-14 10:56 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-14 17:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-14 9:40 ` Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Lars Hansen
2005-11-14 12:47 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-11-14 22:44 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-14 23:06 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-11-15 17:06 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-15 17:33 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-15 17:56 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-15 18:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-15 18:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12 20:07 ` opening /tmp//foo doesn't work Randal L. Schwartz
2005-11-12 18:11 ` Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default (was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.) Reiner Steib
2005-11-12 20:06 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-12 21:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 21:38 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-13 21:08 ` Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 23:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-14 17:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 23:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 2:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 2:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 3:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 3:08 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-15 3:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 3:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 3:18 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 4:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 4:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-15 18:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-15 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 20:54 ` Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default (was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.) Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 0:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-16 3:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 21:21 ` opening /tmp//foo doesn't work Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 9:28 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-13 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
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