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Re: Namespaces - summary, conclusion


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Namespaces - summary, conclusion
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 18:00:15 +0300

> From: Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 14:42:58 +0200
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> rename-file -> file-rename
> delete-file -> file-delete
> copy-file -> file-copy
> expand-file-name -> file-expand-name

These are different: in Emacs we have functions that work on _files_,
and we have functions that work on _file names_.  The first 3 above
are of the former kind, the last one is of the second kind (there are
a lot more of that kind).  We shouldn't mix them.



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