From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.]
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:06:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1EbnOn-0004RuC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43791357.8090803@soem.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:44:39 +0100)
Today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Mon, 2005 Nov 14 11:30 UTC
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.25 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
started with
emacs/src/emacs -Q -D
Lars Hansen wrote,
... Emacs interprets the minibuffer contents as /foo
although it is /tmp//foo.
IMHO that is not very elegant. And it does not work as a general
approach: Consider some command with initial value foo, and imagine the
user types bar. How would Emacs know if he means foobar (minibuffer
contents) or just bar?
I do not understand you.
When I look at the file of a command using `C-x C-f' (find-file),
which I just did, Emacs always offers me the current directory and I
can type in the file name. For example, /bin/ --> /bin/cat.
I always see the trailing / of the current directory and never end up
with /bincat, which would be bad were it to happen inadvertently.
When I do remove the trailing /, then I do create /bincat, an empty
file as I expect.
When I use `C-x C-v' (find-alternate-file), I remove just the command
name part of the complete offering, type in the name, and Emacs goes
to the appropriate file, /bin/cat --> /bin/bash.
We must be talking past each other.
--
Robert J. Chassell
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-14 23:06 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 [this message]
2005-11-15 17:06 ` Lars Hansen
2005-11-15 17:33 ` Miles Bader
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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