From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:39:35 +0300 (IDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020418193459.8613J-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204181527.g3IFRFC02843@rum.cs.yale.edu>
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> But I have one question left: should the `file-directory-p' check be enforced
> independently from `predicate' ?
> I.e. can (locate-file f p s 'file-readable-p) return a directory ?
My vote is for NO, for a couple of reasons:
- it is rare for a program to want to find files and directories alike,
so using file-directory-p is not a nuisance, in practice;
- different filesystems impose different limitations on what system
calls work on directories (for example, some won't let you `read' a
directory), so the application will have to filter non-files anyway.
Of course, compatibility considerations could render these reasons less
important.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-18 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 5:05 locate-file in Emacs Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 8:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 9:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 10:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 13:16 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 13:54 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:09 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 14:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 15:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 16:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 12:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-25 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 15:58 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205061655.g46Gt3K01382@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 19:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205062052.g46KqwO02482@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 20:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-06 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 21:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-07 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-04-18 16:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-19 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 15:31 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:54 ` Miles Bader
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