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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yilkal Argaw <yilkalargawworkneh@gmail.com>
Cc: rtt@dasyatidae.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: missing "/" in value of user-emacs-directory when using --init-directory flag
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:23:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mt7sstd0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJddU=oBe7Z9JgHGM7YE0tf1rp95Pvua7+t2CKTo9-Ddz1JcUA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yilkal Argaw on Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:41:17 +0000)

> From: Yilkal Argaw <yilkalargawworkneh@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:41:17 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  While that's as may be in general, the docstring for user-emacs-directory
>  (in my Emacs 28.2) states "Note that this should end with a directory
>  separator." specifically, which I take to be part of the variable contract.
>  Doesn't that imply that it is Emacs's responsibility to handle that aspect
>  if setting user-emacs-directory based on a file name that may not satisfy
>  that predicate?
> 
>  -RTT
> 
> Correct.  consistency and standardization on such matters is better for overall user experience.

The issue was fixed more than a week ago, so I'm unsure what is the
purpose of this post.  We are consistent.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-12 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-29 17:55 missing "/" in value of user-emacs-directory when using --init-directory flag Yilkal Argaw
2022-11-29 18:11 ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-11-29 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-29 18:56   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-29 19:01     ` Greg Farough
2022-11-29 20:08       ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-29 20:58         ` Greg Farough
2022-11-29 21:54         ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-29 23:04           ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29 23:02         ` Drew Adams
2022-12-02 22:47           ` Richard Stallman
2022-12-03  6:47             ` Yuri Khan
2022-12-02 13:20   ` Robin Tarsiger
2022-12-12  3:41     ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-12-12 12:23       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-12 18:04         ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-12-12 18:13           ` Eli Zaretskii

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