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read carefully: dired-file-name-at-point vs dired-filename-at-point

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 43961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43961: read carefully: dired-file-name-at-point vs
 dired-filename-at-point
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:58:07 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

>   > As I think I mentioned, once (if) the patch is approved, a next step is
>   > to grep the emacs core code-base and replace the function names.
>
> I just did that.  dired-filename-at-point is not used anywhere except
> dired-x.el.
>
> I expect that none of the published Lisp packages uses
> dired-filename-at-point.

And I looked at the code now, and it seems the bug reporter
misunderstood the point of the function: It's used to guess a file name
in non-dired buffers, while dired-file-name-at-point is a dired function
that just returns the file name in a dired buffer.

So they're totally unrelated functions, but dired-filename-at-point has
an unfortunate name.  I've now renamed it (but kept
dired-filename-at-point as an obsolete alias).

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