From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.]
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:33:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a0511150933v50646286q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437A15B0.5080303@soem.dk>
2005/11/16, Lars Hansen <larsh@soem.dk>:
> IMHO it is not intuitive and neither elegant that Emacs interprets
> "/usr/local//etc" as "/etc". I think it would be better if the
> minibuffer initial contents of "/usr/local/" had been deleted
> automatically when the user starts to type.
It is neither elegant nor intuitive to automatically have the entire
contents deleted when you type, necessitating defensive action as your
first step. However that is what you're used to, so you think it is.
Since we are used to Emacs' file-name behavior, we like it. It makes
the common case (appending to current dir) easy and fast, and also
makes the slightly more unusual but still not uncommon case (replacing
the current dir) also easy and fast.
-miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-12 10:47 opening /tmp//foo doesn't work Han Boetes
2005-11-12 14:40 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-12 15:15 ` Han Boetes
2005-11-12 15:55 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-12 16:11 ` Han Boetes
2005-11-12 16:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-11-12 16:38 ` Tomas Zerolo
2005-11-12 17:23 ` Chong Yidong
2005-11-13 21:50 ` Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Lars Hansen
2005-11-13 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 22:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-13 22:57 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 23:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-15 5:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 0:34 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-14 0:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-13 23:22 ` Start value in minibuffer Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 23:48 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-11-14 0:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-14 2:35 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-14 10:56 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-14 17:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-14 9:40 ` Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.] Lars Hansen
2005-11-14 12:47 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-11-14 22:44 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-14 23:06 ` Robert J. Chassell
2005-11-15 17:06 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-15 17:33 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2005-11-15 17:56 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-15 18:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-11-15 18:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12 20:07 ` opening /tmp//foo doesn't work Randal L. Schwartz
2005-11-12 18:11 ` Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default (was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.) Reiner Steib
2005-11-12 20:06 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-12 21:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 21:38 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-13 21:08 ` Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 23:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-14 17:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 23:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 2:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 2:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 3:04 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 3:08 ` Miles Bader
2005-11-15 3:19 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 3:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 3:18 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-15 4:13 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 4:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-15 22:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-15 18:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-15 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-13 20:54 ` Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default (was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.) Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-14 0:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-16 3:17 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-11-12 21:21 ` opening /tmp//foo doesn't work Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-12 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2005-11-13 9:28 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-13 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
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