From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: sds@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:19:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QqHJO-00013K-1J@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANbX366q+MC9eY8QS0OUYKeaVX2H9L3UiLrx42aC5U0qPXBu9w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Lennart Borgman on Mon, 8 Aug 2011 05:23:19 +0200)
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 05:23:19 +0200
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 04:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:05:05 +0200
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >>
> >> > The whole point of convert-standard-filename was to provide an
> >> > OS-dependent file name from an OS-independent one (typically from
> >> > a constant filename in a package). So interpreting the input to this
> >> > function in an OS-dependent way is wrong.
> >>
> >> I would rather have it return a file name that fits the OS, regardless
> >> of the file name that it is given.
> >
> > That would be in contradiction with the function's purpose, see above.
>
> Could it make any harm if it worked the way I suggested?
Yes, it contradicts the purpose of the function, and thus makes its
result unpredictable, except by looking at the source.
> Are there any cases were the result would be ambigious?
The case of "c:foobar", as pointed out by Stefan earlier in this
thread. If it's taken as a local absolute file name, then on Windows
there's no need to do anything about it. If it is taken as a Posix
relative file name, the colon should be replaced with some other
character.
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2011-08-02 3:39 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105295: * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags-file-of-tag, etags-tags-table-files) Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02 4:34 ` Sam Steingold
2011-08-02 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-02 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-02 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-03 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-05 17:18 ` convert-standard-filename (was: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105295: * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags-file-of-tag, etags-tags-table-files)) Stefan Monnier
2011-08-06 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-07 15:33 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-07 15:43 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-07 19:43 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-07 22:05 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 2:54 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 3:23 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-08-08 4:26 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 4:38 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 10:37 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 11:31 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 17:15 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-07 16:18 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-07 16:22 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-07 20:19 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-07 20:35 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-07 21:20 ` convert-standard-filename Sam Steingold
2011-08-08 2:53 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 3:24 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-08 4:14 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 18:20 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-08 19:14 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 21:24 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-09 5:19 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 18:33 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-09 18:36 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-08 7:33 ` convert-standard-filename Michael Albinus
2011-08-02 8:11 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105295: * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags-file-of-tag, etags-tags-table-files) Francesco Potortì
2011-08-02 15:33 ` Sam Steingold
2011-08-02 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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