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26.3; (elisp) `Magic File Names' FILENAME parameters: absolute names?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.3

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 54191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54191: 26.3; (elisp) `Magic File Names' FILENAME parameters: absolute names?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:48:54 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 22:42:39 +0000
> 
> Users shouldn't have to search the Elisp code base
> to try to figure out whether they might need to
> apply `expand-file-name' to a file name before
> passing it to some function.

It goes without saying that _every_ file-related function in Emacs
accepts _any_ kind of file names: absolute, relative, you name it.
What each function _does_ with each kind of file name is a different
matter.  In the specific case of file-remote-p this is described both
in the doc string and in the manual.
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