From: Juanma Barranquero <lektu@mi.madritel.es>
Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename's doc
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:55:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040529194813.6952.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y8nbpjt8.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net>
On Sat, 29 May 2004 13:13:55 +0200, Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote:
> Hm. Now I've taken a look at the different definitions. What do you
> think about the following docstring?
>
> Convert a standard file's name to something suitable for the current OS.
> This means to guarantee valid names and perhaps to canonicalize certain
> patterns.
>
> On Windows and DOS, remove invalid characters. On DOS, make sure to
> obey the 8.3 format. On Windows, turn Cygwin names into native
> names, and also turn slashes into backslashes if the shell requires it.
I honestly don't like a function with three different implementations
having the same docstring explaining its funcionality in every posible
environment. Yes, I agree the first bit (the first two sentences)
should be in all them. But after that I would add just valid info. On
most cases, when I'm going to use a funcion on a Windows Emacs, I'm
interested on what it does, not what it would do, were I to use it on
GNU/Linux (or any other present or future environment)...
BTW, shouldn't it mention that on DOS it strips trailing (back)?slashes
and converts a leading . into _? It doesn't do these things on Windows.
/L/e/k/t/u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-29 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-27 14:05 convert-standard-filename's doc Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-27 18:21 ` 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 [this message]
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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