From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should read-file-name doc mention `file-name-handler-alist'? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:11:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4429BD9B.6040703@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143587621 18166 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2006 23:13:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 29 01:13:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FONNL-0003BQ-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:13:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FONNL-0002KH-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FONMw-00028x-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:12:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FONMu-00026j-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:12:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FONMu-00026Q-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:12:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FONOi-00058p-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:14:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FONMY-00032K-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:12:34 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:12:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4429BD9B.6040703@student.lu.se> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52173 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > It seems to use it. Or am I wrong? Many, many functions use it, so I doubt it's worth documenting its use everywhere. From the Magic File Names node of the Emacs Lisp manual: | All the Emacs primitives for file access and file name transformation | check the given file name against `file-name-handler-alist'. If the | file name matches REGEXP, the primitives handle that file by calling | HANDLER. ... | Here are the operations that a magic file name handler gets to | handle: | | `add-name-to-file', `copy-file', `delete-directory', `delete-file', | `diff-latest-backup-file', `directory-file-name', `directory-files', | `dired-call-process', `dired-compress-file', `dired-uncache', | `expand-file-name', `file-accessible-directory-p', | `file-attributes', `file-directory-p', `file-executable-p', | `file-exists-p', | `file-local-copy', `file-modes', `file-name-all-completions', | `file-name-as-directory', `file-name-completion', `file-name-directory', | `file-name-nondirectory', `file-name-sans-versions', | `file-newer-than-file-p', `file-ownership-preserved-p', | `file-readable-p', `file-regular-p', `file-symlink-p', `file-truename', | `file-writable-p', `find-backup-file-name', `get-file-buffer', | `insert-directory', `insert-file-contents', `load', `make-directory', | `make-symbolic-link', `rename-file', `set-file-modes', | `set-visited-file-modtime', `shell-command', | `unhandled-file-name-directory', `vc-registered', | `verify-visited-file-modtime', | `write-region'. Does read-file-name actually check file-name-handler-alist directly, or via one or more of those primitives? -- Kevin Rodgers