From: Drew Adams via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "michael_heerdegen@web.de" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
"73709@debbugs.gnu.org" <73709@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#73709: 29.4; Doc of `file-newer-than-file-p'
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:21:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS7PR10MB52324C319B34D998C5D5A638F3452@DS7PR10MB5232.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN+1HbrgNqCsu1BExK47ne=JW8ezBHmLHKbUPpJYPy97mt5mdA@mail.gmail.com>
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From: Ship Mints Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 8:01 AM
Perhaps something simple like "This function returns t if the file filename1 is newer than file filename2, as reported by your operating system."
IMO that doesn't help. It just suggests that a reader look to the operating system doc for how it defines/reports a "newer" file. Look for the words "newer" and "file" in the OS doc?
The point of the bug report is that this comparison (whatever the OS, presumably) has something/mostly to do with the latest modification date of the file - something equivalent, or similar, to what Unix/Linux`touch' ends up with as the resulting time/date.
That's mostly to do with file content: at a _first approximation_ it's the date of the last content change - on any OS presumably.
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2024-10-08 17:56 bug#73709: 29.4; Doc of `file-newer-than-file-p' Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-08 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-08 18:40 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 0:45 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-09 16:32 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 23:21 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-10 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-10 11:08 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 0:23 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-12 0:31 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-12 8:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-12 22:48 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 5:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-13 14:51 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-13 17:01 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-13 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-13 22:23 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-14 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-15 1:10 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-15 14:20 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-15 15:01 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-15 16:21 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-10-15 16:23 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-15 16:24 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-16 4:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-16 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 1:32 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-09 23:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-10 1:47 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-10 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-11 0:41 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-11 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-12 0:38 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-12 1:13 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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