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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:54:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A7B578F309F04902ACE8A24F56BECB9D@us.oracle.com> (raw)

The doc string mentions this qualification, but the Elisp manual does
not: " (unless the home directory is a root directory)".
 
Please mention this in the manual also.
 
Question: Why? What is the rationale for not substituting `~' when it
is a root directory? If the reason is short to express, perhaps it
should be included in the doc. Understanding the rationale helps one
remember what the function does.
 
In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
 







             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <83ab03mrlo.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-10-06 17:54 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-10-06 20:21   ` bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Stefan Monnier
2009-10-06 21:12     ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07  5:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07  7:50         ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 14:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07 15:21             ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 10:30   ` bug#4654: marked as done (23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name) Emacs bug Tracking System
     [not found] ` <1E8768BDE1464D019FC9EED701E222F4@us.oracle.com>
2009-10-07 17:44   ` bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-07 17:55     ` Drew Adams

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