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TeX-strip-extension not doing what's documented, TeX-master-file always returning relative name

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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp>
Cc: 35964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Seeger <jan.seeger+auctex <at> thenybble.de>
Subject: bug#35964: TeX-strip-extension not doing what's documented, TeX-master-file  always returning relative name
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:38:43 +0200

Ikumi Keita <ikumi <at> ikumi.que.jp> writes:

> IMHO, the sentence "If optional second argument NONDIRECTORY is non-nil,
> do not include the directory." in the doc string of `TeX-master-file'
> does not gurantee that it returns absolute path if NONDIRECTORY is nil.
> It just states the case when NONDIRECTORY is non-nil, and nothing when
> NONDIRECTORY is nil.  I think `TeX-master-file' is designed so that
> (TeX-master-file) returns "main" in the buffer of main.tex and
> "../master" in the buffer of sub.tex with local variable specification
> %%% TeX-master: "../master"
> .

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

No more response, I'm therefore closing this, assuming that we will not
change the way `TeX-master-file' works.

Best, Arash

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