From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: 19152@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET"
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:59:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oarxu4iv.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141123185441.32704.qmail@mail.muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "23 Nov 2014 18:54:41 -0000")
>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
[…]
>> Actually I find these messages very instructive for people like me,
>> which had no idea about this (new with Emacs-25?) abbreviation
>> ability!
> Which is of questionable value and questionable safety. Read the
> anecdote in entry "DWIM" of the New Hacker's Dictionary (about
> somebody having his command "delete *$" helpfully interpreted as
> "delete *") to see why.
Do you have any specific scenario in mind where this
‘-’-completion may be harmful? I’m occasionally using it for I
guess around a year or so and never had an issue.
> This feature is even present in Emacs 24.3. I'm now going to find
> out how to turn it off, once and for all.
--
FSF associate member #7257 http://boycottsystemd.org/ … 3013 B6A0 230E 334A
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 3:14 bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET" Drew Adams
2014-11-23 11:15 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-23 15:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-23 15:54 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-23 15:41 ` Jay Belanger
2014-11-23 16:14 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-23 16:16 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.14373.1416741437.1147.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-23 18:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-23 18:59 ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
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