From 3abf59170c7f793de3c0713e607081ee657bfd63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Monnier Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:54:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- etc/NEWS | 4 ++++ man/mini.texi | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index c05395bc524..9df53f25ae0 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -672,6 +672,10 @@ modes do. ** Minibuffer changes: ++++ +*** The new file-name-shadow-mode is turned ON by default, so that when +entering a file name, any prefix which Emacs will ignore is dimmed. + +++ *** There's a new face `minibuffer-prompt'. Emacs adds this face to the list of text properties stored in the diff --git a/man/mini.texi b/man/mini.texi index a76be23ba7d..20295e86071 100644 --- a/man/mini.texi +++ b/man/mini.texi @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ GNU Emacs gives a special meaning to a double slash (which is not normally a useful thing to write): it means, ``ignore everything before the second slash in the pair.'' Thus, @samp{/u2/emacs/src/} is ignored in the example above, and you get the file @file{/etc/termcap}. +By default the ignored part of the file name is made dim if the +terminal allows it. This is affected by the +@code{file-name-shadow-mode} minor mode. If you set @code{insert-default-directory} to @code{nil}, the default directory is not inserted in the minibuffer. This way, the minibuffer -- 2.39.5