From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rename-file Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:09:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A955D32.8030202@gnu.org> <8763ca9zbi.fsf@escher.local.home> <87d46hejn8.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251364280 5431 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2009 09:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 11:11:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mgb0O-0005VX-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgb0N-00024S-FW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgazg-0001no-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgazb-0001h4-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34209 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgazb-0001gd-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29320) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mgaza-0007xd-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7R99mAs007418; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: from hase.home (sebastian-int.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.221]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7R99jFR014918; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:09:47 -0400 X-Yow: Is this BOISE?? In-Reply-To: <87d46hejn8.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:38:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.18 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114677 Archived-At: Stephen Berman writes: > 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." That's not a contradiction. All that buffer-file-name defines is a relationship between a buffer and a file name, independent of the current meaning of that name. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."