From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32897 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Daniel Pittman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: (concat "/dir/name/" "foo") --> (expand-file-name "foo" "/dir/name/") Date: 19 Oct 2000 12:11:24 +1100 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87vgupd48z.fsf@inanna.osa.com.au> References: <200010161812.TAA25555@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> <200010181755.SAA08846@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035169103 22355 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:58:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: handlers,file Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA42D051E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:15:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB23645; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:15:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:14:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA07747 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:14:31 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from fw01.osa.com.au (fw01.osa.com.au [203.6.130.130]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id AF663D051E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:14:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 4920 invoked by uid 0); 19 Oct 2000 01:14:45 -0000 Original-Received: (ofmipd 172.16.33.89); 19 Oct 2000 01:14:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7773 invoked by uid 4005); 19 Oct 2000 01:14:45 -0000 Original-Received: from daniel@rimspace.net by excalibur.osa.com.au with qmail-scanner-0.90 (. Clean. Processed in 3.505378 secs); 19/10/2000 12:14:41 Original-Received: from inanna.osa.com.au (HELO inanna.danann.net) (172.16.33.101) by excalibur.osa.com.au with SMTP; 19 Oct 2000 01:14:40 -0000 Original-Received: by inanna.danann.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A31A82206; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:11:24 +1100 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Dave Love's message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:55:22 +0100" X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: Waco, Texas arrangements spy Saddam Hussein Paula Corbin Jones COSCO supercomputer encryption munitions Legion of Doom Mossad nuclear KGB Rule Psix Honduras Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.2 (Notus) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32897 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32897 On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dave Love wrote: >>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Jarc writes: > > PJ> In that case, expand-file-name won't necessarily give you the > PJ> file name you want. > > I don't understand this. It sounds like cause for a bug report. > > PJ> Handlers aren't involved until I/O is attempted, AFAIK. > > I believe the operations listed under Info (elisp)Magic File Names > accurately reflect the code. If not, please make a bug report. > > [I can speak for Emacs 20 and Emacs 21 development code. I recall > that XEmacs appeared to have some problems connected with file name > handlers, but I don't recall what they are.] I don't know of any particular issues with XEmacs vs filename handlers, and have worked in the area. If you do happen to find what they are, please let me know. Daniel -- You may be a geek, you may have geek written all over you; you should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. -- Bruce Sterling