Re: should `minibuffer-complete' use `abbreviate-file-name'?

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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