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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-truename, convert-standard-filename
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:33:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a51002051033i7241395ftdf7f67c0c8b2685d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pr4jeeg9.fsf@igel.home>

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> It's not clear to me when to use `file-truename' and
>> `convert-standard-filename'.
>
> You never apply convert-standard-filename to the name of an existing
> file, since by definition this file name already fits the current OS
> (otherwise it would not exist).


No, that must be a misunderstanding. The file name used internally in
Emacs is not the file name used by the OS. convert-standard-file-name
translates from Emacs file name syntax to OS dito.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-05 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-05 17:31 file-truename, convert-standard-filename Drew Adams
2010-02-05 18:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-05 18:33   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-02-05 19:45     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-05 19:49       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-05 20:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-05 20:18       ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-06  1:10       ` Miles Bader
2010-02-05 23:51   ` Drew Adams
2010-02-05 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-05 23:51   ` Drew Adams
2010-02-06  0:17     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-06  8:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-06 16:55         ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-06 19:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-06 19:20             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-02-06  9:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-06 15:33       ` Drew Adams
2010-02-06 19:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-06 20:46           ` Drew Adams
2010-02-06 21:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-06 23:12               ` Drew Adams
2010-02-07  4:01                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-08  1:38                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-08  2:46                   ` Drew Adams
2010-02-26 18:33                 ` Davis Herring
2010-02-26 19:12                   ` Drew Adams
2010-02-26 19:35                     ` Davis Herring
2010-02-26 20:25                       ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-06  3:52 MON KEY
2010-02-06  8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <d2afcfda1002061814nc3e178fl5d93e21ea6bae7b5@mail.gmail.com>
2010-02-07  2:16     ` MON KEY
     [not found]     ` <83wrypelms.fsf@gnu.org>
2010-02-07 23:26       ` MON KEY
2010-02-08  0:28         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-08  4:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <d2afcfda1002091330y53017b24w5e6bdf3c3d131a97@mail.gmail.com>
2010-02-09 21:32             ` MON KEY
2010-02-09 21:59               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-09 22:32             ` Eli Zaretskii

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