From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:10:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy7e5plb6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACAEKFCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 14 Oct 2007 09\:56\:20 -0700")
> FROM and TO are equivalent, in that they have the same effect. TO is a valid
> directory name and FROM matches a syntactically valid directory name, even
> if no such directory exists. In the user's case, TO names an existing
> directory.
Just for the record: the directory-abbrev-alist is AFAIK only used by
abbreviate-file-name which is only called occasionally rather than
systematically (because its intention is to only make cosmetic changes).
So using it to map non-existent filenames to real filenames is likely to
lead to occasional surprises.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-14 19:10 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 [this message]
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
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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