From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, Jens.Schmidt27@epost.de,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange `file-name-sans-extension' behavior
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:58:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208121558.g7CFw0K29043@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200208101716.g7AHGqc05959@wijiji.santafe.edu
> Could we introduce a new function for that or some way to tell
> `expand-file-name' not to do the expansion if the dir is relative ?
>
> In principle this is ok, but why is concat not correct?
> In this very limited situation, it ought to be correct as
> far as I can tell.
Is it correct for VMS ?
Maybe in practice it works for all systems we care about, but in theory
string concatenation has nothing to do intrinsically with generating
a filename by combining a relative directory name and a relative filename.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-12 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-07-27 18:53 ` Strange `file-name-sans-extension' behavior Richard Stallman
2002-08-09 7:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-10 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 15:58 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-08-12 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-12 18:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-08-13 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-14 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-14 23:14 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-15 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-16 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-16 17:17 ` `concat' a dir and a file (was: Strange `file-name-sans-extension' behavior ) Stefan Monnier
2002-08-17 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-18 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-19 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-19 18:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-20 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-08-13 1:48 ` Strange `file-name-sans-extension' behavior Richard Stallman
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