* minibuffer.el (completion-table-with-terminator): Properly implement

boundaries, in case `terminator' appears in the suffix.
(completion--embedded-envvar-table): Don't return boundaries if
there's no valid completion.  Simplify.
(completion-file-name-table): New completion table extracted from
completion--file-name-table.
(completion--file-name-table): Use it.
(read-file-name-predicate): Declare obsolete.
(read-file-name): Use the pred arg i.s.o read-file-name-predicate.
* vc-bzr.el (vc-bzr-revision-completion-table): Use the new
completion-file-name-table, and use the `pred' argument.
* files.el (locate-file-completion-table): Use the `pred' arg rather
than read-file-name-predicate.
(abbreviate-file-name): Use \` rather than ^ for BOS.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 4d8778b10b0..ff31476fb57 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -256,6 +256,11 @@ Command*'.
 
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 23.2
 
+** read-file-name-predicate is obsolete.  It was used to pass the predicate
+to read-file-name-internal because read-file-name-internal abused its `pred'
+argument to pass the current directory, but this hack is not needed
+any more.
+
 ** completion-base-size is obsoleted by completion-base-position.
 This change causes a few backward incompatibilities, mostly with
 choose-completion-string-functions where the `mini-p' argument has