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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:14:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IghlM-00032v-GV@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACCEJNCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

    > This is definitely not the way directory-abbrev-alist
    > was intended to be used.

    So what? Regardless of the original intention, what's important is how it
    actually behaves.

If you want to know what it will do if you set variables to values
that are not intended to be used, you can read the code.

I made it clearer in the doc string what cases are supposed to be
used.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-13 14:14 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
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 [this message]
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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