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Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'? |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:10:38 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> 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
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, (continued)
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/03
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/12
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/12
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/12
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/12
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/13
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/13
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/13
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/14
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/14
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/15
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/15
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/15
- RE: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/15
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/16
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/13
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/14
- Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/10/13