From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: deego@gnufans.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:53:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85br59aidt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DrqwT-0007fT-E0@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:34:57 -0400")
"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> >> (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory fname) dir)
> >>
> >>
> >> should return fname back. It is like an identity, right? If not,
> >> what is the way to *always* correctly do an expand-file-name ?
> >
> > This works for me:
> > (concat (file-name-as-directory "~/tmp")
> > (file-name-nondirectory "~/tmp/~"))
>
> I am afraid that the former version is _so_ ingrained into Elisp code
> that we should add advice into DOC strings and Elisp manual.
>
> It is not just frequent, it is what we have always called "the right
> way". Using concat has been slightly deprecated, partly because it
> won't work in the case where the directory name fails to end in a
> slash.
Can't happen when file-name-as-directory is used, right?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-11 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 19:07 Emacs and Squiggles as filenames D Goel
2005-07-09 4:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09 4:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10 4:05 ` Paul Jarc
2005-07-10 8:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 5:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 7:53 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-07-11 21:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 12:37 ` D Goel
2005-07-11 13:41 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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