On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 at 12:55, luigi scarso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but the point is that the code says it explicitly:
>
> source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/tex/filename.c:
>
> 309│ end_name();
> 310│ if (cur_ext == get_nullstr())
> 311│ cur_ext = maketexstring(e);
> 312│ if (str_length(cur_name) == 0)
> 313│ cur_name = saved_cur_name;
> 314│ return pack_file_name(cur_name, cur_area, cur_ext);
> 315│ }
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>
>
(oops, missing the first lines..)
259│ char *prompt_file_name(const char *s, const char *e)
260├>{
261│ int k; /* index into |buffer| */
262│ str_number saved_cur_name; /* to catch empty terminal input */
It is there from 2009:
commit fa2ebe0c86a2a2c90ff854cd8e2a827ac165d665
Author: Taco Hoekwater <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Mar 19 15:45:47 2009 +0000
As a result of an attempt to fix bug #180 in the tracker, the
various filename functions have moved to a new C file (tex/filename.c),
and read_font_info no longer takes an optional 'area' as argument.
--
luigi
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