From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reveal-filename
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:28:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gisvocj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd2sknc6r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier writes:
> >> How 'bout `unmsys--filename'?
> > Fine with me.
>
> Could you make the change?
>
> > The description that's already there is all there is to tell:
> > "Produce the real file name for FILE.
How about "Produce a canonical ..." or "Produce a normalized ..."?
"real" has too strong a connation of realpath() to me.
> Looks very ad-hoc to me. My guess is that the "cleaner" description that
> could correspond to it might be something along the lines of "accepts
> a file name in the format commonly used by other programs on the system,
> and turns it into an equivalent form that works within Emacs".
You have that backwards, unless you think Emacs users generally live
inside MSYS. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 21:28 reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-18 8:11 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 2:02 ` reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-21 2:52 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 5:26 ` reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-21 6:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2013-05-21 16:22 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-22 2:46 ` reveal-filename Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-21 16:19 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 16:20 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 19:37 ` reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-25 7:21 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-26 4:49 ` reveal-filename Richard Stallman
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