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: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:04:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IhSQN-00081T-QL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACAEKFCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
His usage:
FROM: Any easy-to-type and mnemonic regexp that matches
a syntactically valid directory name, whether or not
such a directory exists. Example: "^/proj1".
TO: An (absolute) name of an existing directory.
Example: "/a/very/long/dir/name/to/my/project".
That is definitely not what this feature is meant for.
It isn't meant for expanding abbreviations.
It is meant for replacing long names with equivalent short ones.
If he wants a short way to enter /a/very/long/dir/name/to/my/project,
he should make ~/proj1 a symlink to it. Then he can use the
abbreviation ~/proj1 in EVERY program.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 16:04 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
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 [this message]
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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