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

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 7777 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7777: 24.0.50;
	incompatible change for `directory-abbrev-alist' not in NEWS
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:04:43 +0100

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> 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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