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Re: automate Emacs beautifyer ?


From: Kevin Rodgers
Subject: Re: automate Emacs beautifyer ?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:52 -0600
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Miguel Frasson wrote:
> Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> 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:

|    Note that it is legitimate to type an absolute file name after you
| enter the minibuffer, ignoring the presence of the default directory
| name as part of the text.  The final minibuffer contents may look
| invalid, but that is not so.  For example, if the minibuffer starts out
| with `/usr/tmp/' and you add `/x1/rms/foo', you get
| `/usr/tmp//x1/rms/foo'; but Emacs ignores everything through the first
| slash in the double slash; the result is `/x1/rms/foo'.  *Note
| Minibuffer File::.

The one thing the Minibuffer File node doesn't explain about that is
the way it interacts with completion: typing a TAB erases the ignored
part of the double slash path.

--
Kevin Rodgers



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