GNU bug report logs - #43961
read carefully: dired-file-name-at-point vs dired-filename-at-point

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:28:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 43961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
Cc: 43961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#43961: read carefully: dired-file-name-at-point vs
 dired-filename-at-point
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:54:31 +0200

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com> writes:

> They return different values. One returns an expanded (canonical)
> path-name, and the other an abbreviated one.

Why not just have one call the other, and wrap the results in
abbreviate-file-name?

(And then mark it as obsolete, since it doesn't seem very useful.)

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