From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-truename, convert-standard-filename
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:18:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a51002051218g5e4672b9ue7d24748c87deca7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy6j7h26o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> No, convert-stndard-filename is used for standard filenames like
> "~/.emacs" to make them usable (so it may turn it into "~/.e#acs" on
> those OSes where `m' is not allowed).
Yes, but that is not the whole story. On w32 you may have to convert
an internal Emacs file name to an OS dito.
(convert-standard-file-name "c:/path/to/file.txt") => "c:\path\to\file.txt"
But I must have been misunderstanding someting since this is quite
obvious ... ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-05 20:18 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
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 [this message]
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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