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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand
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Peter Bex |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] add pathname-expand |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:09:41 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 02:27:43PM +0200, Felix wrote:
> This patch adds "pathname-expand", a procedure I found in Gambit's
> library and which is quite useful. This does "~"-expansion and makes
> relative pathnames absolute either by merging the current-directory or
> a user-provided base directory.
I'm a little confused. Isn't this something we already have under the
name "ep", as per the recent discussion and CR 1001. Are you
proposing to use a different and longer name, for compatibility, or
have it as an alias for ep, or is this somehow slightly different?
Cheers,
Peter
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