From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:27:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACMEJJCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Id95o-0002yg-IR@fencepost.gnu.org>
> For file-name completion, apply `abbreviate-file-name' to the
> user's input. This would let a user take advantage of a customized
> `directory-abbrev-alist' during completion.
>
> Would there be any downside to that?
>
> I don't think Emacs should alter the names that the user enters.
`directory-abbrev-alist' is nil by default. Users customize it. It lets them
sustitute their own abbreviations for directories.
Why shouldn't completion respect the user's preference for such
abbreviations (e.g. symlinks)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-12 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 19:25 should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'? Drew Adams
2007-10-03 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 19:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-10-12 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 20:34 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-13 3:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-13 6:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-13 14:14 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-13 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-14 16:28 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 16:56 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-14 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 16:25 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-15 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-10-16 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-13 9:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
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