From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: completing-read return meta-information?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:42:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh9metjru.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a8s67c9a.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:13:37 -0500")
>>>> I don't want that to be the display string.
>> I think that's a mistake.
> The user can use `locate-file', if they care about the directories.
I still don't see why you're so intent on preventing the user from
seeing the real file name.
Yes, we want the user to find the file without having to know where it
is, but that's quite different from actively trying to hide
that location.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-28 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-16 13:57 completing-read return meta-information? Stephen Leake
2015-09-16 15:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 17:06 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-16 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-16 17:45 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-17 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-17 12:52 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-17 13:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-17 18:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-18 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-21 16:46 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-21 19:12 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-21 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-22 15:21 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-26 10:54 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-27 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-28 5:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-28 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-28 16:13 ` Stephen Leake
2015-09-28 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-09-28 5:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
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