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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: 43961@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#43961: read carefully: dired-file-name-at-point vs dired-filename-at-point
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:54:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blh667zs.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201013040807.xk2q54jnquthda7y@E15-2016.optimum.net> (Boruch Baum's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:08:07 -0400")

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:

> They return different values. One returns an expanded (canonical)
> path-name, and the other an abbreviated one.

Why not just have one call the other, and wrap the results in
abbreviate-file-name?

(And then mark it as obsolete, since it doesn't seem very useful.)

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-12 14:26 bug#43961: read carefully: dired-file-name-at-point vs dired-filename-at-point Boruch Baum
2020-10-13  3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-13  4:08   ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-13  4:54     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-10-13 10:25       ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-13 10:58         ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-13 11:27           ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-14  3:45         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-14  4:19           ` Boruch Baum
2020-10-14  4:43     ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-14  4:58       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-15  3:57         ` Richard Stallman

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