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31; Deprecate minibuffer-completing-file-name

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Message #77 received at 75910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>
Cc: 75910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 drew.adams <at> oracle.com, mail <at> daniel-mendler.de
Subject: Re: bug#75910: 31; Deprecate minibuffer-completing-file-name
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:21:12 +0200

> Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
>  drew.adams <at> oracle.com
> 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" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> 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.

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