From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename's doc
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:24:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7704-Sat29May2004162405+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y8nbpjt8.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (message from Kai Grossjohann on Sat, 29 May 2004 13:13:55 +0200)
> From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 13:13:55 +0200
>
> 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.
This doc string is fine with me, except ``remove invalid characters''
is not quite true; ``replace'' is closer. Also, I would add an
explicit reference to w32-shell-dos-semantics. So:
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, replace invalid characters. On DOS, make sure to
obey the 8.3 limitations. On Windows, turn Cygwin names into native
names, and also turn slashes into backslashes if the shell requires it
(see `w32-shell-dos-semantics').
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-29 14:24 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 [this message]
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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