From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:20:17 +0200
Given this very clear (IMHO) explanation, I don't understand your original gripe about it: [...] Can you explain what you meant by that, now that you know why the old code was left in the sources, rather than deleted? as part of the emacs under vms effort, i'm addressing some of the "subtle bugs" (that are related to vms) in Fexpand_file_name, by studying the current behavior, forming a mental model of the correct behavior and making the necessary changes. for completeness, i would prefer to apply these bugfixes to all instances of the bug that i can find, whether in one function or in many. i get the feeling that modifying the #if-0'ed out Fexpand_file_name, however, goes against the intent of preserving it in some kind of pristine form. i can see a value in leaving it completely untouched as a historical snapshot (certainly, it is less work to completely ignore it). my griping was an expression of inner conflict at allowing bit rot to flourish unchecked, and not completing the job in some sense. but having written this, i've overcome that internal conflict (laziness wins) -- i'll leave that code alone for someone else to munge, and work on something else. thi _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
