From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:08:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141129140856.GA3752@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bnnqb1lo.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello, Eli and Michael.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:29:21 +0100
> > file-local-copy is a compiled Lisp function in `files.el'.
> > (file-local-copy FILE &optional REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS)
> > Copy the file FILE into a temporary file on this machine.
> > Returns the name of the local copy, or nil, if FILE is directly
> > accessible.
> > If REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS is non-nil, if there exists already a local
> > copy of FILE, and if the file attributes of FILE have not been changed
> > since the last copy operation, the name of the existing local copy of
> > FILE will be returned.
> "If" within another "if" is considered harmful. Suggested rewording:
> REUSE-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS non-nil means return the name of an existing
> local copy of FILE, if FILE's file attributes didn't change since
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> the last copy operation.
"haven't changed", here, since it's expressing a current state. "didn't
change" would be appropriate for referring to a past event.
> (I have no opinion on the rest of your proposal.)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-29 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-29 11:29 Optional argument for `file-local-copy' Michael Albinus
2014-11-29 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 14:08 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2014-11-29 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-29 15:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-29 16:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-30 5:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 11:04 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-30 14:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-30 17:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 14:53 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 20:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-02 21:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-02 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-09 13:32 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-10 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-11 9:20 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-11 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 10:22 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-14 14:24 ` Michael Albinus
2014-12-14 22:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-15 7:41 ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-30 10:54 ` Michael Albinus
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