From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: directory-slash in library names
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:12:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zl4qblj8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <656355bd369f9ef7dc6cb176159ac6eb.squirrel@mail.panix.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 18:08:15 -0500
> From: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
>
>
> I experimented and it already does the right thing on GNU/Linux. One
> can write:
>
> : (require 'dir1/dir2/feature)
>
> and emacs will load-file "feature.el" from "dir1/dir2" beneath any
> directory in load-path.
>
> I cannot test it on other systems, but from the C source, it seems as
> though it will work on any system that `expand-file-name' works on.
> That apparently translates dir separators, eg it calls
> CORRECT_DIR_SEPS for WIN_NT.
Not only does it work on all platforms, we already use it with CEDET.
So if you needed an official blessing, you already have it, I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-07 4:12 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 [this message]
2010-01-07 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-08 0:42 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
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