From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:53:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bqfgcxfn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7iksphj.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
Miles Bader writes:
> If the xemacs people also use the directory for more than init files,
> they could even make the same change to their system
> ... variable-aliases are quite nice for backward compability!
Please don't. For XEmacs, this variable is well-enough named that
there have been no questions and no complaints for about ten years. I
see no reason why it will not serve Emacs equally well for the next
ten, even though it is perhaps suboptimal if there were no history.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-16 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 16:22 Don't concat directories to file names Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 15:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 17:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-14 21:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 1:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 9:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 10:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 11:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 14:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 18:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-15 16:39 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-15 16:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 0:38 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-16 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-16 3:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2007-06-15 22:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 23:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 19:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 20:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-17 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-18 7:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 13:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-20 14:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-20 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 8:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-06-21 8:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 1:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 9:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 15:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 18:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-26 0:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-25 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 19:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-25 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 20:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 2:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-21 8:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-21 8:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 5:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 16:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
2007-06-14 21:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 21:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-15 7:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:40 ` Tom Tromey
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