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bug#22890: 25.1.50; Wishlist: There should be file-attribute accessors
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#22890: 25.1.50; Wishlist: There should be file-attribute accessors |
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Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:39:23 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> `file-attributes' returns a list of data, and you very often see code
> like
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> (let ((atts (file-attributes file)))
> (when (> (elt atts 7) 4000)
> ...))
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> and you have no idea what that means. So I think there should be 12
> attribute accessor functions (well, defsubsts) that people can use
> instead. The names could be something like `file-attribute-size',
> `file-attribute-access-time', etc.
I've now implemented this on the trunk.
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