GNU bug report logs - #7777
24.0.50; incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 19:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #38 received at 7777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 7777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#7777: 24.0.50;
	incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:35:04 -0800

> > The other part of this bug is the location of the manual entry:
> > Why the Elisp manual?  This is a user option.  If we feel it is 
> > important to tell users about this in a manual, why wouldn't the 
> > Emacs manual be the right one?
> 
> Sounds reasonable; I've done as suggested (and added the anchoring
> explanation).

Just in case you didn't notice it, Eli gave a reason for it to be where it is
(in the Elisp manual):

ez> Its description in the ELisp manual is due to the fact that the same
ez> node describes the abbreviate-file-name function, which uses this
ez> variable.  As for repeating the description in the user manual, I'm
ez> not sure this variable is important enough.  So I left this part out
ez> of the bugfix.

FWIW, given Eli's explanation, I'm OK with it being in either manual (or both).
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