Re: convert-standard-filename

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:38

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Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
 > 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, that thread is indeed enlightening.  I'd have never
figured this out from the docstring.

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