From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: 76023-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76023: 31.0.50; Observed behavior for substitute-in-file-name different from the doc string
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:51:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=CBskuJKom3Cbf0XAsb=9-koT3+SQA6VPTmscbO0E9hw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y0ylajfi.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > And why is that a problem? (Of course, one should almost never use
>> > file-name-concat, it exists for a small number of very special cases;
>> > everything else should use expand-file-name.)
>>
>> How should I know it is meant to be for a special cases?
>
> You are not supposed to know about that function at all ;-)
It's in the Elisp manual. Would it make sense to add a warning about
its use there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-05 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-03 3:12 bug#76023: 31.0.50; Observed behavior for substitute-in-file-name different from the doc string arthur miller
2025-02-03 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-02-03 15:34 ` bug#76023: Sv: " arthur miller
2025-02-03 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-02-04 6:25 ` bug#76023: Sv: " arthur miller
2025-02-04 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-02-05 22:51 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2025-02-06 8:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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