From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to conduct common file tests in elisp Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:34:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r646i0by.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ej05nl77.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229672166 13926 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2008 07:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:36:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 19 08:37:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LDZux-0007ed-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDZtl-0007tc-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDZsV-0007G1-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:34:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LDZsU-0007Fi-IE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47989 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LDZsU-0007Fd-AY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:34:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:10954) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LDZsS-0005Fa-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KC400E005522J00@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:36:54 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.241.241]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KC400FWT55H0X80@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:36:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ej05nl77.fsf@newsguy.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60842 Archived-At: > From: Harry Putnam > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:59:56 -0600 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Harry Putnam > >> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:21 -0600 > >> > >> I'm attempting to look up in the elisp manual how to conduct a > >> standard file test. > > > > What is a "standard file test"? > > The few languages or almost languages like shell scripting, awk, perl > and python have some way to test the properties of files. > > I gave several examples of what I was after: > > > like -f file, -d directory, -r file, -x file etc etc. Then using "test" as the main keyword to look in the manual was not a good idea. Something like "i file TAB" would bring you a list of topics, one of which is "file, information about", which is what you want.