From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:08:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mtrjum3r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v967cg9x.fsf@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:51:38 +0200)
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:51:38 +0200
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Drew Adams wrote:
>
> > It's common for those new to Elisp to look for, find, and
> > use string-manipulation functions to manipulate file names
> > and their components. Unfortunately (but understandably).
>
> Why are filenames strings then?
They aren't. We represent file names as strings, but they aren't
_just_ strings. In a way analogous to characters, which are not
_just_ integers.
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2021-06-21 1:40 Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way Hongyi Zhao
2021-06-21 2:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 6:40 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-21 16:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 19:55 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-22 0:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 10:14 ` Arthur Miller
2021-06-21 16:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 18:25 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-26 0:17 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-26 0:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 18:38 ` Arthur Miller
2021-06-22 0:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-22 0:17 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-22 7:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-06-26 6:58 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-21 12:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-06-21 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-21 13:59 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-21 16:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-21 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-21 18:26 ` FW: " Drew Adams
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2021-06-21 14:11 ` tomas
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2021-06-21 20:36 ` Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way Jean Louis
2021-06-21 21:15 ` Printf and quoting in general, SQL injection in particular [was: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way] tomas
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2021-06-22 15:45 ` Jean Louis
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2021-06-22 18:01 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-22 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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