From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: simple useful functions Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:01:37 +0900 Message-ID: <8762wkcavi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20101028.115615.04128253.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <87k4l1r7k5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20101029.111346.113803171.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> <0A81F397D65C44D0804AF87B424D207C@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288430260 9639 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2010 09:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Tak Ota' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 30 11:17:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PC7ZC-0000Gg-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:17:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PC7ZC-00088k-5J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50877 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PC7Z4-00088d-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PC7Z3-0005rg-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.158.254.170] (port=59923 helo=dmail01.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PC7Z3-0005oV-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.254.130]) by dmail01.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF31DFE3F for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:59:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8603A2AF543; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:59:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C282AF542; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:59:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718C13FA0509; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:59:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AF411A3EDD; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:01:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <0A81F397D65C44D0804AF87B424D207C@us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132183 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > So what makes `.' more portable than `source'? The "P" in "POSIX". True, that doesn't generalize to csh. But then, nothing does. At that point, you're not talking "a simple function we can just add somewhere" anymore, you're talking about a whole package.