From: lg.zevlg@gmail.com
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-exists-p on empty string
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:29:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC4EF00D-FE41-4B79-98E2-226C2FFE2302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sgw9jb32.fsf@gnu.org>
27 февр. 2019 г., в 22:16, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> написал(а):
>> From: lg.zevlg@gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:04:15 +0300
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>>> Why do you need to reject empty strings?
>>
>> Filenames are generated externally, and the tool uses empty string notion for no-file semantic
>
> Isn't that un-Emacsy? Why not nil?
That thing is out of my control, however `nil` is something specific and need to be handled in special way, strings are universal
Another exmaple is just a text file with filenames on each line, where empty lines occurs, you also need to check for empty string filenames
—
lg
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-27 12:29 file-exists-p on empty string Evgeny Zajcev
2019-02-27 14:15 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 15:29 ` Troy Hinckley
2019-02-27 15:43 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-27 16:01 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 18:09 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 16:16 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-27 16:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-02-27 19:40 ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-27 16:00 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-27 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-27 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 18:42 ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 19:04 ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 19:29 ` lg.zevlg [this message]
2019-02-27 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-02-27 20:07 lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-27 22:01 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-28 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-06 9:51 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-08 6:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-09 8:48 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 22:09 lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 22:23 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-27 22:41 ` Evgeny Zajcev
2019-02-27 23:23 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-28 0:08 ` Evgeny Zajcev
2019-02-28 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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