From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows? Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:50:39 -0800 Message-ID: <962AB4E1F0C1474EBDC0B3C5425A159C@us.oracle.com> References: <83lie03ano.fsf@gnu.org><50A946A2.5010508@dancol.org> <83a9uezjya.fsf@gnu.org><50A95196.6010701@dancol.org> <836252zj96.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353275470 27561 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2012 21:51:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , "'Daniel Colascione'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 22:51:21 2012 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 1TaCls-0003IK-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:51:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCli-00073A-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:51:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCld-00071u-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:51:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCla-0001W5-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:40902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaClW-0001VM-Do; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:50:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qAILoo0t015112 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:50:51 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAILoogB007290 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:50:50 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt115.oracle.com (abhmt115.oracle.com [141.146.116.67]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qAILon0H012023; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:50:49 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:50:49 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <836252zj96.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Ac3F1TKGgwUeqdhQRHuYYjL6IgVzDwAAQ/lQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:154937 Archived-At: > > > cygwin-convert-filename-to-windows, and similarly for the > > > other one. IOW, replace "path" with "filename". > > > > But the functions convert directory names too. > > "Filename" doesn't contradict that. We have, e.g., > directory-file-name, file-name-as-directory, expand-file-name, etc. I agree. Emacs practice calls for replacing "path" with "filename" or (better) "file-name" here. However, I would suggest replacing "windows" with whatever is the accepted term used in Emacs names these days (win32?). We do not want to confuse users. This is about Microsoft Windows file names; it is not about Emacs windows.