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From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename's doc
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:22:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86u0y1nn1q.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040527152017.0849.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es

Juanma Barranquero <jmbarranquero@wke.es> writes:

> Four years ago, the docstring for convert-standard-filename (in files.el)
> was changed, but the ones in w32-fns.el and dos-fns.el were not.
>
> Now, it's trivial to fix them to be identical again. But I wonder
> whether [...]
> is a good description for a function which really *does* something. In
> other words, I'd change the docstring for the w32-fns.el version to
> read: [...]

If I was working on Windows and wanted to develop some Lisp that work
on Unix, and if I would read your Windows description, then I'd think
that I don't want to call this function unconditionally, since Unix
users will not want /cygdrive/foo thingies replaced.

That's the wrong message, I think.

Can you make it clear(er?) that this function is meant to be called
unconditionally and will DTRT on each system?

Kai

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-28  5:22 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
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 [this message]
2004-05-28  9:32   ` Juanma Barranquero

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