From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A few issues with thumbs.el Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:05:32 -0400 Message-ID: <874qcppp24.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <87br6zuerw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87u0kqrsur.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87vf56q6fk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87wtplpzih.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117148905 28509 80.91.229.2 (26 May 2005 23:08:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 23:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 27 01:08:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbRRY-0004rQ-Fa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 01:07:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbRVi-00030H-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbRUu-0002pf-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbRUq-0002no-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbRUp-0002hA-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:10:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DbRQf-00063v-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([65.92.240.195]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050526230531.ZIEG26128.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 76B34D73A3; Thu, 26 May 2005 19:05:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 27 May 2005 00:49:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37740 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37740 >> The result can only be trusted to be valid if the filename is absolute. > Yes, but that limitation is inherent in convert-standard-filename's > mission, unless you want to add it a second argument ABSOLUTE. Indeed, but I think it's worth mentioning it in the docstring since I got caught by it: it's a sensible limitation, but it's not an obvious one. Stefan