From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: 58364@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58364: [PATCH] Add new function 'file-name-parent-p'
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 13:10:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czb2lj79.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h70ehdnn.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:23:40 +0000)
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: 58364@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:23:40 +0000
>
> > But perhaps our take from this is that file-in-directory-p is not
> > discoverable enough? Can you describe how and where you looked for
> > this functionality? Maybe if we know that, we could make some changes
> > to have this function pop up in similar searches.
>
> I used M-x apropos-command "file parent" tried to find something in
> (elisp) File Names. I now see that the function is documented under
> (elisp) Truenames, which appears unintuitive to me. My guess is that
> had I seen the function name mentioned somewhere, I would have read over
> it since it sounds like a function that checks for "direct entries" in a
> directory.
I think a better place is in "Contents of Directories", since
locate-dominating-file is already there. More importantly, what index
entries should we have for this function to make its discovery easier?
Something like "@cindex parent directory of file", perhaps?
For apropos, how about changing the doc string to say this instead:
Return non-nil if DIR is a parent directory of FILE.
Value is non-nil if FILE is inside DIR or inside a subdirectory of
DIR. A directory is considered to be a "parent" of itself.
Dir must be an existing directory, otherwise the function returns
nil.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-07 20:23 bug#58364: [PATCH] Add new function 'file-name-parent-p' Philip Kaludercic
[not found] ` <handler.58364.B.16651742163752.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2022-10-07 20:46 ` bug#58364: Acknowledgement ([PATCH] Add new function 'file-name-parent-p') Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-07 21:10 ` bug#58364: [PATCH] Add new function 'file-name-parent-p' Drew Adams
2022-10-08 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 7:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 9:23 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-08 10:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 17:20 ` Drew Adams
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