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From: Juanma Barranquero <jmbarranquero@wke.es>
Subject: convert-standard-filename's doc
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:05:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040527152017.0849.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> (raw)

Four years ago, the docstring for convert-standard-filename (in files.el)
was changed, but the ones in w32-fns.el and dos-fns.el were not.

Now, it's trivial to fix them to be identical again. But I wonder
whether

    "Convert a standard file's name to something suitable for the current OS.
  This function's standard definition is trivial; it just returns the argument.
  However, on some systems, the function is redefined with a definition
  that really does change some file names to canonicalize certain
  patterns and to guarantee valid names."

is a good description for a function which really *does* something. In
other words, I'd change the docstring for the w32-fns.el version to
read:

    "Convert a standard file's name to something suitable for Windows.

  Returns FILENAME after replacing invalid characters with ! and
  converting directory separators to the Windows style (if needed).
  It also turns Cygwin-style /cygdrive/x/ pathnames to x:/ paths."

(and add also a suitable docstring for the dos-fns.el version, of course).

                                                                Juanma

             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-27 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-27 14:05 Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2004-05-27 18:21 ` convert-standard-filename's doc Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-27 22:19   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-28  9:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28 16:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-29 11:40         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28  9:27     ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-28 13:51       ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-28 18:26         ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 11:13           ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-29 14:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-29 14:47               ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-29 17:55             ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-30 21:53               ` {Spam?} " Stefan Monnier
2004-05-31  7:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-31  7:39                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 12:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28 16:21       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-29  0:49         ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 17:02         ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-29 17:56           ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 11:18     ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-30 14:30       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-28  7:28   ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-29 10:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-28  5:22 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-28  9:32   ` Juanma Barranquero

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