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29.0.60; uniquify-trailing-separator-p affects any buffer whose name matches a dir in CWD

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 62732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62732: 29.0.60; uniquify-trailing-separator-p affects any buffer whose name matches a dir in CWD
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:43:49 -0400

> Not to prelong the discussion any further, but one more detail: This
> uniquify-trailing-separator-p variable really IMO should be a dired
> variable, since it only affects dired buffer naming (at least in core
> Emacs, for now).  This behavior has really nothing to do with uniquify.
> So IMO it should never have been a uniquify variable in the first place,
> and in an earlier version of my patch I moved the variable to dired and
> obsoleted the old one.

FWIW, I agree, and I'd also recommend to make this variable default to t.


        Stefan

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