From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:33:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr54xnt22.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hb5vvwdp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:20:50 +0300")
>> But how should it decide what is relative and what is not, e.g. in the
>> case of "c:/foo" (or worse "c:foo") mentioned in the docstring?
> Why by file-name-absolute-p, of course ;-)
This would mean that the input is interpreted in an OS-dependent way.
It would seem to make more sense to say that the arg to
convert-filename-argument (or its new replacement) should be
a Unix-style filename, i.e. "C:<foo>" is always interpreted as
a relative file name, even under Window or DOS.
>> AFAICT, there are the following different needs:
>> - The original intention: convert a standard name such as "~/.emacs" so
>> it works everywhere. The argument should come from within Emacs.
>> This should pretty much only be used with a constant argument.
>> Maybe (a big maybe) it can be used for things like generating
>> a filename from some other piece of data, but I think even that should
>> be discouraged in favor of `md5'.
>> - Take a filename from outside Emacs and convert it into something Emacs
>> can use internally. Can do things like cygwin handling. Can assume
>> that the provided filename is valid, so it doesn't need to be careful
>> to drop invalid filename characters. Can convert backslashes into
>> slashes on Windows.
>> - Take an internal filename and convert it to something that can be used
>> outside of Emacs. E.g. convert slashes into backslashes. Again, this
>> can probably assume that the file name is already valid and doesn't
>> need to drop funny chars.
> Something like that. There's also dos-8+3-filename, which is needed
> when one compares with string= internal file names with those found on
> disk, but that's DOS-specific, or maybe it can be merged into the last
> category.
How 'bout a file-name-equal, which could also try to account for
case-sensitivity?
Hmm... I didn't check all uses of doc-8+3-filename, but at least the one
in files.el can't be replaced by file-name-equal.
Stefan
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2011-08-02 3:39 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105295: * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags-file-of-tag, etags-tags-table-files) Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02 4:34 ` Sam Steingold
2011-08-02 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-02 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-02 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-02 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-03 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-05 17:18 ` convert-standard-filename (was: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105295: * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags-file-of-tag, etags-tags-table-files)) Stefan Monnier
2011-08-06 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-07 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-08-07 15:43 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-07 19:43 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-07 22:05 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 2:54 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 3:23 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 4:19 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 4:26 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 4:38 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 10:37 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-08 11:31 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 17:15 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-07 16:18 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-07 16:22 ` convert-standard-filename Lennart Borgman
2011-08-07 20:19 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-07 20:35 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-07 21:20 ` convert-standard-filename Sam Steingold
2011-08-08 2:53 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 3:24 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-08 4:14 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 18:20 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-08 19:14 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-08 21:24 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-09 5:19 ` convert-standard-filename Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-09 18:33 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-09 18:36 ` convert-standard-filename Stefan Monnier
2011-08-08 7:33 ` convert-standard-filename Michael Albinus
2011-08-02 8:11 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105295: * lisp/progmodes/etags.el (etags-file-of-tag, etags-tags-table-files) Francesco Potortì
2011-08-02 15:33 ` Sam Steingold
2011-08-02 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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