From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
4819@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
Subject: bug#4819: file-truename's undocumented behavior
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:56:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50910281756j47bd6da3u60b4efaa0bc1bf68@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvljivca9q.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> Why not mention in the docs that on w32 `w32-long-file-name' may be
>> a more suitable alternative esp. as it is a primitive and as it will
>> expand "8.3 DOS" short name aliases in the process. (Again, per
>> _existing_ comments in body of `file-truename's definition).
>
> Elisp should generally not be w32-specific, so ratehr than use
> w32-long-file-name we should maybe change
> file-truename correspondingly. That doesn't mean I think it's the right
> thing to do: I know next to nothing about this issue.
It already calls w32-long-file-name. (I am not sure what MON means.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-29 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-28 0:28 bug#4819: file-truename's undocumented behavior MON KEY
2009-10-28 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-28 20:01 ` MON KEY
2009-10-29 0:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-29 0:56 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-11-07 0:01 ` MON KEY
2011-07-09 5:51 ` Glenn Morris
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