From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers
Date: 11 Dec 2003 17:07:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ur7zbqtot.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3smjrtw5h.fsf@uboot.com> (message from Florian von Savigny on 11 Dec 2003 12:46:02 +0100)
> From: Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 11 Dec 2003 12:46:02 +0100
>
> > Because its doc string says, in its very first line:
> >
> > *Transforms to apply to buffer file name before making auto-save file name.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > So buffers with no file name are not subject to such transforms.
>
> Ok, so it doesn't do it because it is not told so ;-) but I still
> wonder why it is told not to do so (I mean why, in the first place,
> the author decided not to apply this feature to file names derived
> from mere buffer names).
Probably because the rules that are supposed to be applied to file
names aren't fit for buffer names. In other words, the applications
of auto-save-file-name-transforms that the programmer had in mind did
not include the kind of situation in which you've found yourself.
> Wow, thanks for this hint; it does sound like a sane approach. But I
> still need to understand when, in the particular case of auto-save
> file names derived from buffer names, convert-standard-file-name takes
> effect. AFAICS, it is not called directly from within
> make-auto-save-file-name.
It _is_ called directly, at least in my version of Emacs, albeit only
for non-Unix platforms. But that should be easy to fix: simply
modify the condition under which make-auto-save-file-name calls
convert-standard-file-name.
If your version of make-auto-save-file-name doesn't call
convert-standard-file-name on any OS, perhaps you have an old Emacs
(or else I have a too new Emacs ;-).
> However, I've made a start. I've decided that no direct function
> to the kernel to query mounted filesystems seems available, and
> between looking at the output of /proc/mounts and calling mount with
> no arguments, I've decided to do the latter (I don't know if any
> approach is favourable over the other).
Why not call `df' instead? I think "df ." should produce a line where
one field gives you the type of the filesystem that you want.
> For looking up transforms, I'd like to have a list of alists of a
> value and a list of alists each ;-) ... is that possible?
I'd try to use regexps and replace-match instead.
> This one
> here doesn't work:
>
> (defvar file-name-char-transforms
> '(("vfat" . (("*" . "_") (":" . "%")
> ("ä" . "ae") ("ö" . "oe") ("ü" . "ue") ("ß" "ss")))
> ("fat" . (("*" . "_") (":" "%"))))
> "Complexly structured list containing rules how to translate
> filename characters in the context of given file systems.")
What doesn't work, exactly?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-11 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-10 16:07 make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers Florian von Savigny
2003-12-10 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-10 17:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.1505.1071080061.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-11 11:46 ` Florian von Savigny
2003-12-11 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1581.1071159027.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-12 1:19 ` Florian von Savigny
2003-12-12 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-12 23:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-13 11:44 ` Florian von Savigny
[not found] ` <mailman.1655.1071258163.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-13 11:51 ` Florian von Savigny
2003-12-13 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.25.1071336560.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-13 19:52 ` Florian von Savigny
2003-12-14 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-04 3:57 ` David Combs
2004-01-04 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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