From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy'
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:39:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a93aax58.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141129140856.GA3752@acm.acm>
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:08:57 +0000
> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > 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.
It _is_ a past event, by the time this function is called.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-29 14:39 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
2014-11-29 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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