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bug#45779: Once FFAP sniffs a URL, its taste buds no longer recognize fi
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#45779: Once FFAP sniffs a URL, its taste buds no longer recognize filenames |
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Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:29:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> $ echo http://example.com > /tmp/z
> $ emacs -nw -q /tmp/z
> Now do M-x ffap
> Now delete the URL that it is prompting us with.
> Now enter ~/.em<TAB>
> Tab doesn't complete .emacs!!
ffap is a guessing system, and it calls `read-string' when it guesses
that you want to enter an URL. And even if you delete the URL, that
doesn't magically change back to calling `read-file-name'.
So I think the answer here is "don't do that, then"?
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