Re: reveal-filename

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:
 > >> How 'bout `unmsys--filename'?
 > > Fine with me.
 > 
 > Could you make the change?
 > 
 > > The description that's already there is all there is to tell:
 > >     "Produce the real file name for FILE.

How about "Produce a canonical ..." or "Produce a normalized ..."?

"real" has too strong a connation of realpath() to me.

 > Looks very ad-hoc to me.  My guess is that the "cleaner" description that
 > could correspond to it might be something along the lines of "accepts
 > a file name in the format commonly used by other programs on the system,
 > and turns it into an equivalent form that works within Emacs".

You have that backwards, unless you think Emacs users generally live
inside MSYS. :-)