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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: substitute-in-file-name is not distributive
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:20:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk3ufw8eu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50750955.4020802@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:36:21 -0700")

> The trouble is that the core completion code makes unwarranted
> assumptions about the behavior of expand-in-file-name.  Specifically,
> completion--tqw-all assumes that (equal (unquote (concat (qnew foo)
> (qnew bar)) (unquote (quote (concat foo bar))).  Why should that be
> the case?

Long story.  For typical escaping/quoting this does hold.
Of course, for more general rewrites, it doesn't.

Can you give me your file-name-handler code so I can play with it (I
don't have Cygwin at hand, but I should be able to make up the
difference).
I think the problem is in completion--sifn-requote, which is definitely
not prepared for the kind of rewrites you're doing.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10  5:36 substitute-in-file-name is not distributive Daniel Colascione
2012-10-10  6:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-10 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-10 16:48   ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-10 17:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-10 17:40       ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-11  3:25   ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-25  3:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-10-25  3:28   ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-27 16:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-28 19:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30  4:10       ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-30 13:15         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30 15:01           ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-30 18:58             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30 20:12               ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-30 21:24                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-30 21:34                   ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-31  3:41                     ` Stefan Monnier

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