Re: [Adrian Aichner <adrian@xemacs.org>] Re: [Success] XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence (RC2 Windows)", i586-pc-win32
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Oh, BTW, here's the docs I'm basing my guesses on.
>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Andy> I guess my question is, what is: file-truename("c:\\*.txt")
Andy> supposed to do? Is it documented?
The documentation says
[...]
On Unix, (file-truename "/*.txt") returns
"/*.txt". I believe this is
correct. There is no requirement that the path name a unique existing
file, and it definitely doesn't say anything about expanding globs.
Changing this will cause TRAMP to break in nasty ways, potentially, or
code that relies on the glob expansion to break when used with TRAMP.
Glob expansion and path canonicalization have also been distinct
operations for a very long time under Unix; it's probably best to
preserve that.
...the right thing to do is probably to extend `find-file' to be glob
expansion when operating interactively, which will do what anyone who
likes the expansion in `file-truename' really wants if they think about
it.[1]
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] It has the added advantage of doing something I would like to see
as well. :)
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