Re: emacs/etc/images/gud record-start.xpm record-st... [EMACS_23_1_RC]

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 22:24:34 +1200
> Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)
> 
>  > Can we please rename them to something that doesn't have this problem,
>  > like recstart.xpm, recstop.xpm, rev-continue.xpm, etc.?
> 
> Does rev-continue.xpm work with 8+3 DOS file names?  I thought it meant the
> basename had only 8 characters (rev-continue has 12?).

No, the requirement is to have them _unique_ in the 8+3 characters.
Thus, rev-continue.xpm gets truncated to rev-cont.xpm, and if no other
file gets truncated to the same 8+3 name, it's fine.

The DOS port of Emacs does not support images, so these files won't be
used there, we just need to avoid problems when unpacking the tarball.
But even if Emacs did use these files on DOS, the filesystem calls
transparently truncate the file names to 8+3 limits, and will happily
resolve rev-continue.xpm to an existing rev-cont.xpm.

> I'm willing to do it and I would probably use the names in gud.el:
> recstart, recstop, rnext, rnexti, rstep, rstepi, rfinish, rcont.
> Are these okay?

Yes, they are okay.

Thanks.