GNU bug report logs - #4819
file-truename's undocumented behavior

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:35:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 4819 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#4819: file-truename's undocumented behavior
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:56:26 +0100

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> Why not mention in the docs that on w32 `w32-long-file-name' may be
>> a more suitable alternative esp. as it is a primitive and as it will
>> expand "8.3 DOS" short name aliases in the process. (Again, per
>> _existing_ comments in body of `file-truename's definition).
>
> Elisp should generally not be w32-specific, so ratehr than use
> w32-long-file-name we should maybe change
> file-truename correspondingly.  That doesn't mean I think it's the right
> thing to do: I know next to nothing about this issue.


It already calls w32-long-file-name. (I am not sure what MON means.)
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