Re: Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default

[Juri Linkov]

>> Some packages like FFAP can read both a file name and URL in the same
>> minibuffer.  With leading "http://"; highlighting of URL is wrong.
>
> Um, do they use `read-file-name' to read them?!?

Almost.  `ffap-read-file-or-url' let-binds `minibuffer-completing-file-name'
to t and calls `completing-read' with its own predicate
`ffap-read-file-or-url-internal' which depending on the minibuffer contents
dispatches it either to `read-file-name-internal' or `ffap-read-url-internal'.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/