From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> <20051112163852.GA11661@www.trapp.net> <874q6hlqzc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4377B512.3050303@soem.dk> <43791357.8090803@soem.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132078625 24503 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2005 18:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 19:16:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Hw-0006n8-Ow for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:12:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Hw-0001v6-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5E2-00006n-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5E1-000067-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5E1-000063-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ec5E1-0004T5-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ec5Dy-0004PV-6B; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:06 -0500 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <43791357.8090803@soem.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:44:39 +0100) 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:46033 Archived-At: Yes, but only because Emacs interprets the minibuffer contents as /foo although it is /tmp//foo. IMHO that is not very elegant. And it does not work as a general approach: Consider some command with initial value foo, and imagine the user types bar. How would Emacs know if he means foobar (minibuffer contents) or just bar? Could we please drop this argument? I'm not going to change this, and the discussion is a distraction from work that needs to be done.