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| From: | Ivan Shmakov |
| Subject: | bug#19152: 25.0.50; "You can run the command `debug-on-entry' with M-x deb-o RET" |
| Date: | Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:59:36 +0000 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
[…]
>> Actually I find these messages very instructive for people like me,
>> which had no idea about this (new with Emacs-25?) abbreviation
>> ability!
> Which is of questionable value and questionable safety. Read the
> anecdote in entry "DWIM" of the New Hacker's Dictionary (about
> somebody having his command "delete *$" helpfully interpreted as
> "delete *") to see why.
Do you have any specific scenario in mind where this
‘-’-completion may be harmful? I’m occasionally using it for I
guess around a year or so and never had an issue.
> This feature is even present in Emacs 24.3. I'm now going to find
> out how to turn it off, once and for all.
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