From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converting filenames
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:31:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Kp6dnegcP4iEh7HRnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2C18CE.5020109@nihilo.net>
B. T. Raven wrote:
> Nordlöw wrote:
>> Is there an opposite function of expand-file-name() that converts "/
>> home/per/" to "~/" if I am user per?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Nordlöw
>
> I don't think that a general inverse function would be useful since "~/"
> is probably not a symlink or hard link but just string somehow hard
> coded to expand to the fully qualified home path. What would the
> putative abbrev-file-name do with dir/subdir/pic.jpg? The only sensible
> thing is just to return its argument.
>
> Something like this:
>
> (if (equal (getenv "home") "/home/per") (print "~/"))
>
> illustrates what should happen if the Emacs process belongs to per.
>
> Ed
Oops, abbreviate-file-name actually exists but returns only "~". You
could wrap it in something that concats the "/"
Ed
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2010-07-01 0:42 ` Converting filenames Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-01 4:25 ` B. T. Raven
2010-07-01 4:31 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2010-12-11 7:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-12-11 7:35 ` Drew Adams
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