From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'? Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:25:07 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191353159 15489 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2007 19:25:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:25:59 +0000 (UTC) To: "Emacs-Devel" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 02 21:25:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcnNE-0007na-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:25:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnN9-0007lx-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnN6-0007la-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnN4-0007l5-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcnN4-0007l2-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcnN4-0005NJ-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:25:30 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l92JPR7d019630 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l92JPRTR005711 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:25:27 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-72-229.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3261742241191353104; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:25:04 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80149 Archived-At: An Icicles user suggested this, so I added it. I wonder if it wouldn't also make sense for Emacs: 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?