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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: find-alternate-file
Message-ID: <89Jun19.205604edt.11768@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 20:55:50 EDT

In article <8906192349.AA05610@apple-gunkies.ai.mit.edu> jla@wheaties.ai.mit.edu writes:
>The current implementation of find-alternate-file for version 19
>appends the filename of the current buffer to the prompt string.  This
>is annoying to some people and I am thinking of changing this.

It should provide the directory, period.  One thing of the same ilk that is a
bug in release 18 is that recover-file does not prompt you with the file name,
but rather with its directory, which is utterly confusing.  Maybe you could
swap the two pieces of code... :-)

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4