From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reveal-filename
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd2sknc6r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mwrpujr4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 May 2013 05:52:47 +0300")
>> How 'bout `unmsys--filename'?
> Fine with me.
Could you make the change?
> The description that's already there is all there is to tell:
> "Produce the real file name for FILE.
> On systems other than MS-Windows, just returns FILE.
> On MS-Windows, converts /d/foo/bar form of file names
> passed by MSYS Make into d:/foo/bar that Emacs can grok.
> This function is called from lisp/Makefile."
> What did you find missing from this description?
Looks very ad-hoc to me. My guess is that the "cleaner" description that
could correspond to it might be something along the lines of "accepts
a file name in the format commonly used by other programs on the system,
and turns it into an equivalent form that works within Emacs".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-17 21:28 reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-18 8:11 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 2:02 ` reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-21 2:52 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 5:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-05-21 6:28 ` reveal-filename Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-21 16:22 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-22 2:46 ` reveal-filename Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-21 16:19 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 16:20 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-21 19:37 ` reveal-filename Stefan Monnier
2013-05-25 7:21 ` reveal-filename Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-26 4:49 ` reveal-filename Richard Stallman
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