From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Optional argument for `file-local-copy' Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:39:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83a93aax58.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tom5jou.fsf@gmx.de> <83bnnqb1lo.fsf@gnu.org> <20141129140856.GA3752@acm.acm> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417272007 10317 80.91.229.3 (29 Nov 2014 14:40:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 15:40:02 2014 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 1XujBq-0004Ml-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 15:40:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XujBp-0004iE-U3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55495) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XujBh-0004i2-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XujBc-0001pO-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:36686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XujBc-0001p9-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:39:48 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFT003001B32G00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:32:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFT00O031PH3440@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:32:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20141129140856.GA3752@acm.acm> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:178454 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:08:57 +0000 > Cc: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > 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.