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: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:10:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IhdlL-0002zf-Oy@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEELBCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 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.
It is nevertheless what this feature *does*. It is agnostic wrt name length.
You are welcome to use the feature for something other than its
intended purpose, if you like the result. However, we don't have to
maintain Emacs or its manuals for the sake of such usage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 4:10 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
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 [this message]
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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