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: load-path contains directories or directory names? Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:08:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9ledavd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86lhauus4x.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87vb9x42io.fsf@web.de> <867fmcey8k.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83vb9udc86.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445800135 10916 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2015 19:08:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 19:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 25 20:08:40 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 1ZqQek-0000vs-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:08:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqQej-0001aj-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqQeg-0001ae-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqQed-0002V9-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:57031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqQec-0002V3-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWS00400IFXV700@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:07:32 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWS00NMKIGKB870@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:07:32 +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: 80.179.55.184 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:192613 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Cc: Stephen Leake , michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:02:32 -0700 > > >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> (info "(elisp) Directory Names" says to use: > >> > >> (concat DIRNAME RELFILE) > > > No, it says you CAN use that. > > Eli, should we remove that mention in the elisp docs, to avoid confusion? > > Telling people they could use `concat' is something (a) an experienced Lisper > would already know, and (b) an inexperienced Lisper shouldn't consider as a > reasonable alternative to `expand-file-name'. IMO, either remove and replace with 'expand-file-name', or describe both with a preference to 'expand-file-name'.