From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: file-name-directory vs file-name-as-directory / directory-file-name
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:44:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854perq9hj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy7c3i7g0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:57:13 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> To me it is a little bit unclear if file-name-directory returns a string
>> which is consistent with file-name-as-directory or directory-file name.
>
> Basically, a directory name ends with a / whereas a file name does not.
> So file-name-directory returns something that ends in a /.
Unless it doesn't... That's platform-dependent.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-10 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 23:08 file-name-directory vs file-name-as-directory / directory-file-name Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 2:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-10 7:44 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-12-10 9:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-10 15:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-10 17:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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