From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reveal-filename Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83ppwor9li.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwrpujr4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369113999 5357 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2013 05:26:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 05:26:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 21 07:26:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uef5m-00069r-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 07:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uef5m-0002oU-1Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38171) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uef5j-0002o9-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uef5i-00007H-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:29132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uef5g-00006y-Qg; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZoF/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GsR+QDpEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZoF/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GsR+QDpEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="13757735" Original-Received: from 69-165-154-5.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.154.5]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 21 May 2013 01:26:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 77F466A5A4; Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mwrpujr4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 May 2013 05:52:47 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159700 Archived-At: >> 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