From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:20:24 +0200 Message-ID: <8337ww3ypz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151023135532.11512.53356@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83mvv8wejc.fsf@gnu.org> <86bnboeymw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83wpuadc9k.fsf@gnu.org> <86d1w1ahsy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <562E2A8A.1030601@yandex.ru> <83wpu9bns4.fsf@gnu.org> <86fv0x8kl6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83d1w0416d.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445973634 30606 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 19:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 20:20:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9nD-000330-Aj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9nB-0001wK-SK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9n7-0001vx-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9n1-0008MF-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:47841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9n1-0008M7-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWW00C007OIEB00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:18:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWW00C4D8A04W20@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:18:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192754 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:01:38 -0400 > > >> No, it was not inconsistent. "directory name" is used all over the > >> place to mean "with or without trailing slash, it doesn't matter", so > >> the original doc-string was fine. > > That doc string was confusing because it used the terminology > > differently from the manual. > > Can you (re)explain it, then? Looks like I didn't understand > the problem. The manual says "directory name" ends in a slash, and talks about "file name of a directory" which doesn't. The doc string used "directory name" while the strings in load-path didn't end in a slash.