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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#4654: 23.1; Elisp manual doc of abbreviate-file-name |
Date: | Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:21:15 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Question: Why? What is the rationale for not substituting `~' when it > is a root directory? If the reason is short to express, perhaps it > should be included in the doc. Understanding the rationale helps one > remember what the function does. "a root directory" means "/". The reason is that substituting "/" for "~" doesn't really abbreviate anything. If anythingn to me it "looks" longer because I expect ~ to expand to something longer. Stefan
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