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From: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: directory-slash in library names
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:42:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ef01f6876a41f30d73e45d580c6dd0.squirrel@mail.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NT1BF-0001H5-39@fencepost.gnu.org>

>      * to give the official OK to directory-slash in library names, for
>        example:
>
>        : dir1/dir2/feature
>
> If we do this, we might want to set up a systematic way to explicitly
> label those directories that should be in the search path.
> In a case like, this, you wouldn't want (load "foo")
> to searchfor dir1/foo or dir1/dir2/foo.

Oh, I see.  You want a way to ensure that directories that contain
libraries with names like `dir1/foo' are not directly in the load-path. 
Good catch.  Perhaps a "magic" filename similar to ".nosearch"?

Tom Breton (Tehom)






  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-08  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-06 23:08 Proposal: directory-slash in library names Tom Breton (Tehom)
2010-01-07  4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-07 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-08  0:42   ` Tom Breton (Tehom) [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-10  1:37 MON KEY

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