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24.2.50; find-cmd: `find-constituents' lacks "readable"

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Message #10 received at 12856-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de
Cc: 12856-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12856: 24.2.50; find-cmd: `find-constituents' lacks "readable"
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:13:14 +0800

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> yes, the "-readable" test of find has no counterpart in
> `find-constituents'.  Dunno if other stuff is also missing.  Maybe
> someone should go through the "find" manpage and supplement
> `find-constituents'.

Done (in trunk), thanks.

> And, btw, the user may want to modify `find-constituents' himself,
> e.g. because entries are missing, or he wants to add own abbrevs.  So,
> shouldn't `find-constituents' be a defvar, and not a defconst?

The defconst just signifies that the variable is unlikely to change over
the course of normal Emacs usage; should the user want to modify it,
there is nothing stopping her from doing so.

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