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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:24:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sxsk7r59dqz.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020418193459.8613J-100000@is> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:39:35 +0300 (IDT)")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>> But I have one question left: should the `file-directory-p' check be enforced
>> independently from `predicate' ?
>> I.e. can (locate-file f p s 'file-readable-p) return a directory ?
>
> My vote is for NO, for a couple of reasons:
>
>   - it is rare for a program to want to find files and directories alike, 
>     so using file-directory-p is not a nuisance, in practice;
>
>   - different filesystems impose different limitations on what system 
>     calls work on directories (for example, some won't let you `read' a 
>     directory), so the application will have to filter non-files anyway.
>
> Of course, compatibility considerations could render these reasons less 
> important.

Fortunately, compatibility agrees with your reasoning, and so do I.

Note that XEmacs's internal locate_file() is based on what was once
openp().  So the similarities are not completely coincidental.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-18 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-17  5:05 locate-file in Emacs Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17  5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17  8:53   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17  9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17  9:47   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 10:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 13:16       ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 13:54         ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:09           ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 14:25             ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:08         ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 15:11           ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 15:27             ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 16:20               ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 18:59                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 12:12                   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-25 22:52                     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 15:58                       ` Hrvoje Niksic
     [not found]                         ` <200205061655.g46Gt3K01382@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 19:53                           ` Hrvoje Niksic
     [not found]                             ` <200205062052.g46KqwO02482@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 20:59                               ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-06 21:12                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 21:57                                   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-07 20:06                                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 16:39               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-18 16:24                 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
2002-04-19  5:25               ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 15:31             ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:29               ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:45                 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:49                   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:54                     ` Miles Bader

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