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25.0.50; Documentation of file-name-sans-extension seems wrong |
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Sat, 28 May 2016 22:04:40 -0400 |
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Sup/0.20.0 |
(file-name-sans-extension "foo.bar") produces "foo" when the
documentation suggests it should produce "foo.":
> Return FILENAME sans final "extension".
> The extension, in a file name, is the part that follows the last ‘.’,
> except that a leading ‘.’, if any, doesn’t count.
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.25)
of 2015-10-30
Repository revision: 9c36df736b89490d14a5b5109c9c00209a0c25f5
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 (jessie)
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11
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Re: bug#23643: 25.0.50; Documentation of file-name-sans-extension seems wrong |
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Sun, 29 May 2016 18:02:22 +0300 |
> From: Thomas Emile Bourgeat <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 22:04:40 -0400
>
> (file-name-sans-extension "foo.bar") produces "foo" when the
> documentation suggests it should produce "foo.":
>
> > Return FILENAME sans final "extension".
> > The extension, in a file name, is the part that follows the last ‘.’,
> > except that a leading ‘.’, if any, doesn’t count.
Thanks for the report. I'm not quite sure which part of the doc
string led you to believe that "foo." should be produced: the
"follows" part or the "leading `.'" part. So I went ahead and
clarified both for the next release.
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