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(interactive "F") silently expands a directory to the current buffer's path

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From: Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and <at> gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 32274 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32274: (interactive "F") silently expands a directory to the current buffer's path
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:39:55 +0200

> So it seems to be on purpose.

OK, that makes sense, thank you.

I still don't think it's a wise choice though, besides being prone to
mistakes it also makes it impossible to choose /tmp/ in the above
example, while other directories can be happily selected.

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