From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-file-name-predicate Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:19:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173327559 5995 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2007 04:19:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 04:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 05:19:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HPA5x-0002yj-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:19:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA67-0005M2-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA5w-0005Lr-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA5v-0005LR-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPA5v-0005LO-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HPA5k-0005XR-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:19:00 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-4-115.inter.net.il [80.230.4.115]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CBL89170 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 06:18:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:67556 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:14:28 -0800 > > That was *not* my "general point". You could have fooled me. Anyway, I commented on the general issue, not this specific variable. > *IF*, as I hope, this is to remain a Lisp variable, and *IF*, as I claim, it > is useful to users in the same way that `minibuffer-completion-predicate' is > useful, *THEN* it should be documented similarly to > `minibuffer-completion-predicate'. > > *IF* someone decides that this should be usable only by the built-in Lisp > function `read-file-name', *THEN* perhaps it should not be a Lisp variable > at all. These are not the only possibilities. There are others, as Richard and Stefan explained. > A Lisp variable whose doc says, in effect, "There is no reason that > I am a Lisp variable, I don't do anything anyway, and you must not use me" > is silly. That is not what the current doc string of this variable says.