From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:22:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83vcufaaqf.fsf@gnu.org> <83hb5vvwdp.fsf@gnu.org> <834o1t19hg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312734180 28399 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2011 16:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 16:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 07 18:22:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq67p-0005Vo-6m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:22:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq67o-0007WJ-Jr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq67m-0007WB-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq67k-0005Ca-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:44680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qq67i-0005CE-IM; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so173092ewy.0 for ; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:22:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XiRrlTf7dL/Fq/ZRFWk/z4HRdmlcqe9VtbVT0u9HhBU=; b=lzDE3JTRN6QrwtQ0LdfQk4cEF988zc2e7lZUgjbMLLrM2VL2AgSupqF3fT3ZF71jO7 VNOT4NC9AFT7W6i9QEEVJckVZ8y8apHgLaQb8YE1Vf+NpU917mRvjqbovuhYG8dapIjj m8xbAS+PhLvaHU7Sll9/eBB7G7d70/6Lc5ebA= Original-Received: by 10.213.22.68 with SMTP id m4mr1339119ebb.125.1312734165124; Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.4.71 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Aug 2011 09:22:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <834o1t19hg.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142961 Archived-At: On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 18:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> How 'bout a file-name-equal, which could also try to account for >> case-sensitivity? > > He-he, I was arguing for years that file names are not strings and > cannot be compared as strings. =C2=A0Finally I have someone who agrees ;-= ) > > There's also the case of 8+3 aliases of long file names on Windows, we > bumped into that some time ago (the value of temporary-file-directory > on Windows uses the 8+3 alias, because that's how Windows sets up the > environment variable). You are not alone.