Subject: Re: bug#75910: 31; Deprecate minibuffer-completing-file-name

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:21:12 +0200

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
>  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:51:13 +0200
> From:  Björn Bidar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > The deprecation of `minibuffer-completing-file-name' is just
> > one step in the transition to the category mechanism. As I have
> > mentioned the variable `minibuffer-completing-symbol' had been
> > deprecated and has even been removed already.
> 
> Would it be better to first a discussion on what to transition too
> before talking about deprecation of this variable?

That was already stated in the original report.  If you have some
comments to that proposal, please tell.