From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop and tilde-expand-file-name Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:45:08 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <843cohxd4r.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <3E0EBCFE.8090106@math.ku.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041163066 30084 80.91.224.249 (29 Dec 2002 11:57:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Sc4f-0007p6-00 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:57:45 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Sc5j-0007i2-00 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:58:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Sc3c-0006hO-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Sc3J-0006gv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Sc0X-0005sy-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:53:30 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Sbsl-0004RN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Sbrz-0007Li-00 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:44:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Sbrx-0007LR-00 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:44:37 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GuLwOmzHJFgYp36SB+vUERr01i4= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10365 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10365 Lars Hansen writes: > 1. How do I do? I have not participated in Emacs development before, > and I don't have CVS. I think CVS is necessary. It's not that difficult to use. Basically, you go to the Emacs project page on Savannah, then you click on CVS and this explains read-only anon-cvs access. Once you have a working directory according to the instructions there, `cd' into it and do `cvs update -dP' to fetch the most recent changes from the server. Do `cvs diff -u' (or `cvs diff -c' depending on taste) to get the difference between your changed version and the server. After `cvs update -dP', you might get `conflicts'. Look at the corresponding files for `===' -- you will easily see the conflict markers. Merge the two versions in a way that seems sensible and remove the conflict markers. > 2. For use in the desktop module, I need a function > `tilde-expand-file-name' that should work like `expand-file-name' > except that path is specified from "~" rather than from root when > that is possible. Maybe abbreviate-file-name is what you are looking for? -- Ambibibentists unite!