Re: convert-standard-filename

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:46

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Kyle Jones wrote:
 > Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
 >  > Shouldn't VM use convert-standard-filename for its configuration 
files?
 >
 > I never got the impression that either Emacs or XEmacs actually
 > intended anyone to use this.  All the filename twiddling stuff
 > seemed to be put into expand-file-name.  Once I came to that
 > conclusion I didn't bother using convert-standard-filename
 > anywhere other than the tempfile creation code.  And I doubt that
 > it is actually doing anything useful there.

The place to use it is when you are naming a configuration file, which
is what is actually meant by "standard filename" in the function name.
See this thread, which I think justifies my patch:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=mailman.2328.1100267110.8225.bug-gnu-emacs%40gnu.org

Thanks,
-- 
Kevin Rodgers

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