From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: automate Emacs beautifyer ? Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:48:31 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <412CB73C.9050506@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093773034 14928 80.91.224.253 (29 Aug 2004 09:50:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:50:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 11:50:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C1MKT-0008Db-00 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:50:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C1MPF-0003Pj-CE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:55:25 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QIH7UG5IbR7LPCvrNczLzyDyfZ8= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.82.146.249 Original-X-Trace: 29 Aug 2004 11:48:29 +0200, 82.82.146.249 Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!82.82.146.249 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125005 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20355 Kevin Rodgers writes: > Miguel Frasson wrote: > > Oliver Scholz writes: > >>No, you don't. After C-x C-f you can immediately type an absolute > >>filename. Emacs will grok this and Do The Right Thing. > > > > Interesting! Thanks for the tip. > > Interesting, and fully documented in the File Names and Minibuffer > File nodes of the Emacs manual: [...] I really think that `file-name-shadow-mode' (in CVS Emacs) should be on by default. That way people would likely discover that feature by accident. I seem to recall that I have used Emacs for more than a year before I read about it in an Emacs newsgroup. I mean: who has the whole Emacs manual in his or her mind? Oliver -- 13 Fructidor an 212 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!