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Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows? |
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:44:30 -0800 |
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On 11/18/12 1:50 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>>>> cygwin-convert-filename-to-windows, and similarly for the
>>>> other one. IOW, replace "path" with "filename".
>>>
>>> But the functions convert directory names too.
>>
>> "Filename" doesn't contradict that. We have, e.g.,
>> directory-file-name, file-name-as-directory, expand-file-name, etc.
>
> I agree. Emacs practice calls for replacing "path" with "filename" or
> (better)
> "file-name" here.
I've renamed these functions in the trunk. Should I push them to the
emacs-24 branch too? (Is there a way to do that without checking out a
complete copy of that branch?)
> However, I would suggest replacing "windows" with whatever is the accepted
> term
> used in Emacs names these days (win32?). We do not want to confuse users.
> This
> is about Microsoft Windows file names; it is not about Emacs windows.
"windows" is clear enough in context, and the function names are long
enough as it is.
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- document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Glenn Morris, 2012/11/16
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/17
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Daniel Colascione, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Daniel Colascione, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- RE: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Drew Adams, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?,
Daniel Colascione <=
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Glenn Morris, 2012/11/20
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Daniel Colascione, 2012/11/20
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Daniel Colascione, 2012/11/18
- Re: document cygwin-convert-path-{from,to}-windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2012/11/18