>>>> "David" == David A Cobb
<Superbiskit(a)cox.net> writes:
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David> [Sorry for hopping in late!!]
David> I must be missing something. The only place special
David> handling of ~ or / seems appropriate in
David> minibuffer-read-file-name (or whatever) is when it is the
David> FIRST character typed by the user. Nicht wahr?
David> Whether it's electrical or post-<CR> scanning, it doesn't
David> make sense
David> to look elsewhere.
The idea, as I understand it, is that you do not need to erase
previous entry if you change your mind in the middle of a long path
entry.
e.g. in native XEmacs:
C-x d \ a \ b \ c \ d \ e \ \
electrically deletes to
C-x d \
This is annoying when done by accident, until you're tipped off (like
I was after a long time of use) that
f1 (advertised-undo)
will actually undo the electric delete.
Some for use of ~.
Hrvoje's gripe still stands that one cannot access files beginning
with ~.
I guess \ in native Windows and / elsewhere is not a big problem in
practice since such files are pretty rare, like files containing BS or
DEL in their names.
Somebody who cares enough about these particular issues will have to
take them up.
I got enough on my plate.
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Adrian Aichner
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