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Re: How to conduct common file tests in elisp
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: How to conduct common file tests in elisp |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:34:29 +0200 |
> From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:59:56 -0600
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:21 -0600
> >>
> >> I'm attempting to look up in the elisp manual how to conduct a
> >> standard file test.
> >
> > What is a "standard file test"?
>
> The few languages or almost languages like shell scripting, awk, perl
> and python have some way to test the properties of files.
>
> I gave several examples of what I was after:
>
> > like -f file, -d directory, -r file, -x file etc etc.
Then using "test" as the main keyword to look in the manual was not a
good idea. Something like "i file TAB" would bring you a list of
topics, one of which is "file, information about", which is what you
want.