[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#2341: closed (absolute file name arg of `true-filename': should/must?)

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regarding absolute file name arg of `true-filename': should/must?
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> absolute file name arg of `true-filename': should/must?
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> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:09:54 +0100
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> Package: emacs,documentation
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> According to true-filename's docstring:
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>   Return the truename of filename, which should be absolute.
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> In (elisp)25.6.3 Truenames:
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>   The function `file-truename' returns the truename of the file
>   FILENAME.  The argument must be an absolute file name.
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> OTOH,
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>   (file-truename "test") => "C:/emacs/test"
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> and some functions seem to use it as expecting that it expands the
> argument. For example, `find-buffer-visiting':
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>   (defun find-buffer-visiting (filename &optional predicate)
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>     (let ((predicate (or predicate #'identity))
>           (truename (abbreviate-file-name (file-truename filename))))
>        ;; ...
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> where the argument FILENAME of `find-buffer-visiting' is usually not
> an absolute file name.
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> The current behavior seems to be: "SHOULD be an absolute filename; if
> it is not, it will be expanded using `default-directory'." Is that
> intended, and if so, shouldn't it be documented?
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>     Juanma
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> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:11:11 -0500
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.1
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> Clarified.
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