From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows? Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:44:30 -0800 Message-ID: <50A98EFE.3000806@dancol.org> References: <83lie03ano.fsf@gnu.org><50A946A2.5010508@dancol.org> <83a9uezjya.fsf@gnu.org><50A95196.6010701@dancol.org> <836252zj96.fsf@gnu.org> <962AB4E1F0C1474EBDC0B3C5425A159C@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFEE3BD7E15992DA5B8122136" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353289489 28363 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2012 01:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 02:44:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TaGPy-0004GW-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:44:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaGPn-00076H-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:44:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaGPj-000761-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaGPg-0003Yy-1q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:44:43 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:59557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaGPc-0003YH-Gr; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: from c-76-22-66-162.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([76.22.66.162] helo=[192.168.1.2]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TaGPb-0005N6-1Q; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:44:35 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <962AB4E1F0C1474EBDC0B3C5425A159C@us.oracle.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154940 Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFEE3BD7E15992DA5B8122136 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/18/12 1:50 PM, Drew Adams wrote: >>>> cygwin-convert-filename-to-windows, and similarly for the=20 >>>> other one. IOW, replace "path" with "filename". >>> >>> But the functions convert directory names too. >> >> "Filename" doesn't contradict that. We have, e.g., >> directory-file-name, file-name-as-directory, expand-file-name, etc. >=20 > I agree. Emacs practice calls for replacing "path" with "filename" or = (better) > "file-name" here. I've renamed these functions in the trunk. Should I push them to the emacs-24 branch too? (Is there a way to do that without checking out a complete copy of that branch?) > However, I would suggest replacing "windows" with whatever is the accep= ted term > used in Emacs names these days (win32?). We do not want to confuse use= rs. This > is about Microsoft Windows file names; it is not about Emacs windows. "windows" is clear enough in context, and the function names are long enough as it is. --------------enigFEE3BD7E15992DA5B8122136 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlCpjwAACgkQ17c2LVA10VvcNQCeOxLWX9SdU4vYFXxfQI5uPkST OHwAni1uTfdvM2FAEZS46yuOSM3Goj+1 =0JeD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFEE3BD7E15992DA5B8122136--