From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Namespaces - summary, conclusion
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 18:00:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhann3sw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGK7Mr6X9p9Gi1Nuj-7gqoQkR0--c_N-iAevJGV9rKFgfDTGGw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philippe Vaucher on Mon, 4 May 2020 14:42:58 +0200)
> From: Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 14:42:58 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> rename-file -> file-rename
> delete-file -> file-delete
> copy-file -> file-copy
> expand-file-name -> file-expand-name
These are different: in Emacs we have functions that work on _files_,
and we have functions that work on _file names_. The first 3 above
are of the former kind, the last one is of the second kind (there are
a lot more of that kind). We shouldn't mix them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 9:27 Namespaces - summary, conclusion Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 10:11 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 11:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-04 12:42 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 13:13 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-04 13:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-05-04 13:35 ` Joost Kremers
2020-05-04 14:18 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-04 15:35 ` tomas
2020-05-04 16:32 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 14:59 ` 조성빈
2020-05-04 16:28 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-05 10:22 ` 조성빈
2020-05-04 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-04 16:36 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 16:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-04 16:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-05 16:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-05-04 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 18:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-04 18:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-04 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-04 16:25 ` Philippe Vaucher
2020-05-04 23:40 ` chad
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