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25.1.1; dired-jump: Interactive call w/ prefix arg move to wrong file line

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24409: 25.1.1; dired-jump: Interactive call w/ prefix arg
 move to wrong file line
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:53:19 +0300

> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:37:14 +0900 (JST)
> cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>, 24409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > I think a better comment would be to say that dired-goto-file requires
> > its argument to be an absolute file name, and the result of
> > read-file-name could be an abbreviated file name.
> Thank you.  I rewrote the comment/log message with your suggestion.
> I included the word canonical: an abbreviated file name could be
> an absolute file name, for instance ~/foo, but dired-goto-file,
> in addition to absolute file name, requires the substitution of '~/'.

We don't have a notion of a "canonical" file name in Emacs, so I'm not
sure this helps.  OTOH, "absolute file name" is quite clear, and I
don't think people will be confused by the fact that ~/foo returns
non-nil from file-name-absolute-p.

> +When FILE-NAME is non-nil, move to FILE-NAME line in Dired.

  "When FILE-NAME is non-nil, jump to its line in Dired."

(Try to avoid saying the same thing twice too close to one another.)

Thanks.

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