From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 4654@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:21:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpr90e0mj.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7B578F309F04902ACE8A24F56BECB9D@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:54:09 -0700")
> Question: Why? What is the rationale for not substituting `~' when it
> is a root directory? If the reason is short to express, perhaps it
> should be included in the doc. Understanding the rationale helps one
> remember what the function does.
"a root directory" means "/". The reason is that substituting "/" for
"~" doesn't really abbreviate anything. If anythingn to me it "looks"
longer because I expect ~ to expand to something longer.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-06 20:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <83ab03mrlo.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-10-06 17:54 ` bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Drew Adams
2009-10-06 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-06 21:12 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 5:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07 7:50 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 10:30 ` bug#4654: marked as done (23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name) Emacs bug Tracking System
[not found] ` <1E8768BDE1464D019FC9EED701E222F4@us.oracle.com>
2009-10-07 17:44 ` bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-07 17:55 ` Drew Adams
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