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31; Deprecate minibuffer-completing-file-name

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, "75910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <75910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#75910: 31; Deprecate minibuffer-completing-file-name
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:11:04 +0000

> I propose to deprecate `minibuffer-completing-file-name', since the
> completion category as part of the completion metadata acts as
> generalization for this variable. Similarly `minibuffer-completing-
> symbols' has been deprecated and removed a while ago.
> 
> Instead of checking `minibuffer-completing-file-name' one can use
> (minibuffer-category-p 'file) given the following predicate function:
> 
> (defun minibuffer-category-p (cat)
>   (eq (completion-metadata-get
>        (completion-metadata
>         (buffer-substring-no-properties
>          (minibuffer-prompt-end) (point))
>         minibuffer-completion-table
>         minibuffer-completion-predicate)
>        'category)
>       cat))

FWIW, I'm opposed to this.  You can as well
replace all of that with the longstanding
variable.

That you don't use something isn't evidence
that it isn't used.

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