From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Namespaces - summary, conclusion
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 15:35:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnbjomaz.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1jVau7-0007xr-SM@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Mon, May 04 2020, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> rename-file -> file-rename
> delete-file -> file-delete
> copy-file -> file-copy
>
> These functions are also interactive, where it is far more
> natural to
> want to rename/delete/copy a file, than ... a file
> renamed/deleted/copied.
>
> expand-file-name -> file-expand-name
>
> You're expanding a file name, so the name seems to fit the task.
But wouldn't that be an excellent reason to have an alias?
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 13:35 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 [this message]
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
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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