From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default (was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.) Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:11:43 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131824657 28758 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2005 19:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 20:44:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1Gt-00047N-Gt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:42:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1Gs-0006HL-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:42:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1Gj-0006HG-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1Gj-0006H4-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1Gj-0006H1-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Eb1Gj-0006Gw-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb1FE-0003TG-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:41:00 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:41:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: 1; h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB; kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm; %Od 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:45831 Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 12 2005, Han Boetes wrote: > If you try to open /tmp//foo emacs will try to open /foo, of > course this is a great feature, but it forgets that /tmp//foo is a > valid notation of /tmp/foo. `file-name-shadow-mode' makes it quite obvious for the user what happens. It has been discussed previously to turn on `file-name-shadow-mode' by default. IIRC Richard asked people to try it and check if there are problems. I've been using `file-name-shadow-mode' for about one year now (I didn't know about it before) and I think it should be turned on by default. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/