From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:37:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9uenwsk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50A95196.6010701@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:22:30 -0800")
>>>> I do have a gripe wrt their names: GNU coding standards frown upon
>>>> using "path" for anything but PATH-style lists of directories. But my
>>>> comments about that at the time evidently weren't enough to convince
>>>> the guilty parties.
>>> It's not too late to change the names. What would you suggest?
>> cygwin-convert-filename-to-windows, and similarly for the other one.
>> IOW, replace "path" with "filename".
> But the functions convert directory names too.
You clearly need to (re-)read the GNU coding standards.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-17 3:39 document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows? Glenn Morris
2012-11-17 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 20:35 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-18 21:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 21:22 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-18 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18 21:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-19 1:44 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-19 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-20 19:00 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-20 19:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-19 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-11-19 2:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-11-19 3:46 ` Stefan Monnier
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