From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 73709@debbugs.gnu.org,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: bug#73709: 29.4; Doc of `file-newer-than-file-p'
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:01:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN+1HbrgNqCsu1BExK47ne=JW8ezBHmLHKbUPpJYPy97mt5mdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o73lqv07.fsf@gnu.org>
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Perhaps something simple like "This function returns t if the file
filename1 is newer than file filename2*, as reported by your operating
system.*"
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > CC: "73709@debbugs.gnu.org" <73709@debbugs.gnu.org>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:20:21 +0000
> >
> > > So these are the conceptual difficulties we bump into when we go down
> > > to this low level.
> >
> > There's no reason to go down to a low level
> > to fix this doc bug for `file-newer-than-file-p'.
>
> You are missing the point of my post. The point was not to say this
> should be in the doc string, the point was to explain why "time of the
> last write" is still not accurate in some quite widespread cases. The
> low-level details were meant to explain the subtleties, so that if
> someone has ideas how to describe that _without_ getting into details,
> but also without being inaccurate, could understand the problem to
> solve.
>
>
>
>
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2024-10-12 0:31 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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