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: Request to support Cygwin in convert-standard-filename function Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:02:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465819677 25104 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2016 12:07:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:07:57 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 14:07:42 2016 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 1bCQea-0005Gp-Gj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCQeU-0006tx-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56763) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCQYU-0002cz-MX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCQYP-0000eF-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCQYP-0000dr-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bCQYM-0000rd-0v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:01:14 +0200 Original-Received: from 45.72.244.67 ([45.72.244.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:01:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 45.72.244.67 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:01:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.72.244.67 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kkFBeyT7xDhky1z3HxQdWTcr8LU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204331 Archived-At: > According to the description of the `convert-standard-filename`, it is > expected to be used only in places where the callee wants to convert a *nix > path to the underline OS path. The output of convert-standard-filename is meant to be used *inside* Emacs, not outside of it. The purpose of convert-standard-filename is to convert a *standard* file name such as ~/.emacs for those cases where this standard file name happens not to work on the system (e.g. because file names can't start with a "."). Stefan