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Re: reveal-filename
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: reveal-filename |
Date: |
Tue, 21 May 2013 01:26:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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.
> On systems other than MS-Windows, just returns FILE.
> On MS-Windows, converts /d/foo/bar form of file names
> passed by MSYS Make into d:/foo/bar that Emacs can grok.
> This function is called from lisp/Makefile."
> What did you find missing from this description?
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".
Stefan
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