Subject: Re: bug#7777: 24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:04:43 +0100

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> In Emacs 22, the doc string of `directory-abbrev-alist' says this:
>  
> "*Every* FROM string should start with `^'."
>  
> Now it says this:
>  
> *Every* FROM string should start with "\\`".
>  
> That means that *Every* existing customization is broken (or at least
> contradicts the "should").

*Every* existing customization will still work the same as before.

Andreas.

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