From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reveal-filename Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:22:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83ip2cuwum.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ppwor9li.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwrpujr4.fsf@gnu.org> <877gisvocj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369153354 7766 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2013 16:22:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 21 18:22:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UepKX-0000B9-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 18:22:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepKX-0000fS-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepKQ-0000fG-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepKL-00041U-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UepKL-00041E-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 12:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MN500700PDZMK00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 19:22:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MN50076YPH3BYC0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 May 2013 19:22:16 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <877gisvocj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159712 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:28:12 +0900 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > >> How 'bout `unmsys--filename'? > > > Fine with me. > > > > Could you make the change? > > > > > The description that's already there is all there is to tell: > > > "Produce the real file name for FILE. > > How about "Produce a canonical ..." or "Produce a normalized ..."? The problem is, it can be neither. If the argument is just "foo", it will be returned unchanged. > "real" has too strong a connation of realpath() to me. Well, that will be changed when the function is renamed.