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Re: file-name-shadow-mode
From: |
Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
Re: file-name-shadow-mode |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:30:57 -0600 (CST) |
I am no longer sure that enabling `file-name-shadow-mode' by default
is really a good idea. (_Not_ because it would be difficult: it could
easily be done using `custom-reevaluate-setting' in startup.el, even
without any changes to define-minor-mode.)
The problem is a comment in rfn-eshadow.el:
;; This is not really a correct implementation; it won't always do the
;; right thing in the presence of environment variables that
;; substitute-in-file-name would expand; currently it just assumes any
;; environment variable contains an absolute filename.
In other words, rfn-eshadow.el assumes that the value of _every_
environment variable is an absolute file name and it yields very
confusing results when other environment variables are used in file
names, say "/home/$USER".
Sincerely,
Luc.
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, (continued)
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/18
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/18
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/18
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/19
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/19
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/19
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/19
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode,
Luc Teirlinck <=
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Miles Bader, 2005/03/19
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/19
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, David Kastrup, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/20
- Re: file-name-shadow-mode, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/03/20