Re: convert-standard-filename's doc

[Kai Grossjohann]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> Four years ago, the docstring for convert-standard-filename (in files.el)
> was changed, but the ones in w32-fns.el and dos-fns.el were not.
>
> Now, it's trivial to fix them to be identical again. But I wonder
> whether [...]
> is a good description for a function which really *does* something. In
> other words, I'd change the docstring for the w32-fns.el version to
> read: [...]

If I was working on Windows and wanted to develop some Lisp that work
on Unix, and if I would read your Windows description, then I'd think
that I don't want to call this function unconditionally, since Unix
users will not want /cygdrive/foo thingies replaced.

That's the wrong message, I think.

Can you make it clear(er?) that this function is meant to be called
unconditionally and will DTRT on each system?

Kai