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Re: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way.


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Emacs Modular Configuration: the preferable way.
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:09:40 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28)

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-06-21 21:07]:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:47:17 +0200
> > From:  Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> > <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> > 
> > If it is string to begin with and the end result is a string
> > one should be able to use string functions to "assemble" it.
> 
> Repeat after me: "filenames are not strings", "filenames are not
> strings", "filenames...
> 
> Bonus points for coming up with at least one use case which shows how
> filenames are not just strings.

As an irrelevant side note, this one bothers me:

(file-exists-p "") ⇒ t

Is that supposed to be so?




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