unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: empty-directory predicate, native implementation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:56:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR06MB45269B3924B44A555428F00596050@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7qxjh7g.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:21:39 +0200")

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
> Hi Arthur,
>
>> The only thing I am not sure about is how to deal with 0 count; I
>> mean if user explicitly ask for 0 count; the case when count is not
>> NILP.
>
>>I have chosen not to deal with it all, I check for zer set
>> explicit limit for count to be [1,COUNT]. I am not sure if that is best
>> thing to do; maybe just to return Qnil? I am probably doing something
>> else wrong, advice apprecaiated.
>
> Returning Qnil seems to be OK, when count is 0.
>
> Best regards, Michael.
What about return the length, number of the files in that case?

In order to get number of the files currently we would get list of files
and get length of the list afterwards; if we asked to get 0 files, it
could return the length; I thought of it afterwards.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13  2:22 empty-directory predicate, native implementation Arthur Miller
2020-10-13  8:01 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-13 11:42   ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-13 13:16     ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-13 18:32       ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-13 18:39         ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-13 23:20           ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-14  9:19             ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-14 13:53               ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-13 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-13 18:43   ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-13 19:12     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-13 19:59       ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-14 14:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-14 14:43           ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-13 18:44   ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-13 19:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-13 20:08       ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-14  1:52       ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-14  9:21         ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-14 13:56           ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-10-14 14:41             ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-14 15:07               ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-14 15:53                 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-14 16:12                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-14 16:21                     ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-14 16:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-15  5:53                         ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-15  9:12                           ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-15 11:33                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-15 12:21                               ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-15 13:29                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-15 14:01                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-15 14:41                                   ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-15 15:22                                     ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-16 23:31                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-17  8:13                                   ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-17 19:03                                     ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-17 20:03                                       ` Drew Adams
2020-10-17 20:27                                         ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-17 21:18                                           ` Drew Adams
2020-10-17 22:06                                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-17 21:02                                         ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-17 21:27                                           ` Drew Adams
2020-10-17 21:58                                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-18 12:06                                               ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-18  2:47                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-18 11:52                                       ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-18 16:15                                         ` Drew Adams
2020-10-18 16:43                                           ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-18 20:15                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-18 21:25                                             ` Drew Adams
2020-10-19  0:03                                           ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-18 22:21                                         ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-19  8:04                                           ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-19 14:01                                             ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-19 14:50                                               ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]                                         ` <VI1PR06MB45266BE5DFC72AEB27567A6C961E0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                                           ` <87a6wixoim.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                                             ` <VI1PR06MB4526280D5B81531D06E58BC1961D0@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                                               ` <87wnzev6i3.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                                                 ` <VI1PR06MB45264E1CB34EECE86672581C96100@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
2020-11-02 17:02                                                   ` Michael Albinus
2020-11-03 15:20                                                     ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-15 13:38                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-16 23:33                                 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-14 14:49             ` Arthur Miller
     [not found] <<VI1PR06MB4526ACBABDE795DDD49A5A5896040@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found] ` <<83y2ka18t7.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<87y2kaj799.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]     ` <<83blh60wgr.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<VI1PR06MB452688C9C71D5463D9497A2A96050@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]         ` <<87h7qxjh7g.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]           ` <<VI1PR06MB45269B3924B44A555428F00596050@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]             ` <<878sc8kgy8.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]               ` <<VI1PR06MB4526FDD3D3EB4867AF837C8F96050@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                 ` <<87imbcls71.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                   ` <<83eem0zt0b.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                     ` <<87k0vsrd6m.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                       ` <<83a6wozs7h.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                         ` <<VI1PR06MB45267C7D83E77C3F307FF34E96020@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                           ` <<87sgafq2e2.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                             ` <<AM6PR06MB4518BCD25B93987390D7D6D596020@AM6PR06MB4518.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                               ` <<87h7qvptm3.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                                 ` <<VI1PR06MB452605D66CDE84BAA25A257696030@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                                   ` <<871rhxp8we.fsf@gmx.de>
     [not found]                                     ` <<VI1PR06MB45261F3309D31EC7DEDE4C8B96000@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com>
     [not found]                                       ` <<237bd21b-96c7-4433-a5bc-34b64a9f4250@default>
     [not found]                                         ` <<83ft6cs10u.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-10-18  4:05                                           ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-10-18 21:13 Drew Adams
2020-10-18 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-19  7:54   ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-19  0:24 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-19  0:37   ` Drew Adams
2020-10-19  2:15     ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-19  7:51 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-19 15:25   ` Drew Adams

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=VI1PR06MB45269B3924B44A555428F00596050@VI1PR06MB4526.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com \
    --to=arthur.miller@live.com \
    --cc=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=michael.albinus@gmx.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).