From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug?: (file-name-extension "some.html~") gives "html" Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:32:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4461A9AF.2010404@student.lu.se> <200605101622.k4AGM3jH021548@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <446242CA.9000004@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147296785 18907 80.91.229.2 (10 May 2006 21:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 10 23:33:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdwIL-0000kf-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 23:32:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdwIK-000784-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FdwI7-00077q-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FdwI6-00077P-9w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdwI6-00077M-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FdwJS-000783-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E591D8A1; Wed, 10 May 2006 23:32:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers X-Yow: Yow! Is this sexual intercourse yet?? Is it, huh, is it?? In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Wed, 10 May 2006 15:02:54 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54204 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > BTW, why does file-name-extension accept an optional PERIOD argument > to include the extension delimiter in the result, but > file-name-sans-extension does not? I don't think there is a need to cut off the extension while keeping the period, whereas keeping the period together with the extension is quite common. > Symmetry baby, This is asymmetric in nature. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."