From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:27:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83egwsnwvo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdojx_tcOJpo=uVARUuvx4YrfWca4ZRrw8m-STNMXhCNbaQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 13:02:26 +0100
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Cc: 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 7 August 2014 03:51, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:05:33 +0100
> > > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> > > Cc: 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
> > >
> > > If "_emacs" is to be supported, surely other similar patterns should
> > > be added for other dot files?
> >
> > Which patterns are those?
> >
>
> For example, the patterns for bash's dot-files.
It was never required, and nowadays the MS-DOS build does not get any
features added, especially if no one asked for them.
> > Why do you think we support _emacs for DOS and Windows?
> >
>
> I'm not sure why you're asking me, you're the DJGPP maintainer! If you
> meant it as an exercise, then I'd say: I have no idea where we support it
> on Windows, where, post-Win 3.x (which we don't support), ".emacs" is a
> valid filename.
We support _emacs on Windows because the Windows Explorer used to
dislike files with a leading dot, pretending they didn't exist or
couldn't be created.
A release or two ago, we deprecated _emacs on Windows, but we still
didn't remove support for it.
> I understood that DJGPP had long filename support too, but maybe that's not
> universal?
Only on Windows, or with a special driver. Not on plain DOS.
> In which case, not only "_emacs", but other GNU dotfiles should
> surely be supported with a leading "_"?
In principle, yes. But this is all ad-hoc, not universal.
> In other words, it looks like a quick hack to support the most
> commonly-edited Emacs file that would suffer from this problem. I can't
> tell whether it's still needed, and if it is, it should be extended
> systematically.
See above: _emacs is still needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-05 23:58 bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-06 17:47 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:14 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-07 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 9:39 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 10:07 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 10:18 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-07 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-07 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 5:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-08 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-08 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 20:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-08 23:19 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 7:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 7:44 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 9:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 11:57 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-06 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 22:05 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 12:02 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-08-07 11:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 23:57 ` Glenn Morris
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