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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rename-file
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:08:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljl5mbhb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d46hejn8.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:38:35 +0200")

> I should have left out the though-clause above, it was a misguided
> afterthought.  What's problematic is that returning the previous name
> contradicts the doc string of buffer-file-name: "Name of file visited in
> current buffer, or nil if not visiting a file."

The docstring sounds correct to me.  If you rename the underlying file,
it means the buffer's file name will refer to some other file (or no
file at all).


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26 16:05 rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 18:58 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27  3:16   ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27  8:38     ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27  9:09       ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 10:01         ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 10:21           ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 11:28             ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 11:50               ` rename-file Miles Bader
2009-08-27 14:59                 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 12:18               ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 17:08       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-08-26 19:21 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 20:20   ` rename-file Lennart Borgman
2009-08-26 20:35   ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27  3:15     ` rename-file Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27  3:25     ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-27  3:41       ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 17:11         ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29  0:46         ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:09           ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 14:47     ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 20:42 ` rename-file martin rudalics
2009-08-27 13:49 ` rename-file Daniel Colascione

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