From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: file-name-directory vs file-name-as-directory / directory-file-name
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:57:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy7c3i7g0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475C756C.5050105@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:08:28 +0100")
> To me it is a little bit unclear if file-name-directory returns a string
> which is consistent with file-name-as-directory or directory-file name.
Basically, a directory name ends with a / whereas a file name does not.
So file-name-directory returns something that ends in a /.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-10 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 23:08 file-name-directory vs file-name-as-directory / directory-file-name Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-10 2:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-10 7:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-10 9:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-10 15:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-10 17:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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