From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: hniksic@arsdigita.com, monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:25:27 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204190525.g3J5PRY00797@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204181527.g3IFRFC02843@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu)
Based on the information here, I think I'll go ahead and implement
the functionality on top of `openp' with just a `predicate' argument
and without backward compatibility for `mode'.
We should support backward compatibility values of MODE such as
`executable' and `writable'. That is a clean enough interface,
so there is no particular downside to supporting it.
We could allow predicates as alternative values for the same argument,
or we could add another optional argument PREDICATE.
But I have one question left: should the `file-directory-p' check be enforced
independently from `predicate' ?
Definitely yes--by default. The default should be to
return only files, not directories.
There could be an additional optional argument which says "accept
directories too." Perhaps it could also have a way to specify
that you want directories only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-19 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 5:05 locate-file in Emacs Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 8:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 9:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 10:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 13:16 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 13:54 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:09 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 14:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 15:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 16:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 12:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-25 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 15:58 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205061655.g46Gt3K01382@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 19:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205062052.g46KqwO02482@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 20:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-06 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 21:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-07 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-18 16:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-19 5:25 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-04-18 15:31 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:54 ` Miles Bader
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