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: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:20:41 +0900 Message-ID: <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181902231 31182 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 10:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 12:10:30 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hz8l7-0007x2-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:10:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz8l7-0002jE-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz8l3-0002iw-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz8l0-0002iF-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz8l0-0002iC-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz8kx-0002SA-0p; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754D07FFC; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:10:13 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 883EF1A260D; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:20:42 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" (+CVS-20070324) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:72943 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > If I'm undestanding it correctly, the API is for finding the user > init file (.emacs or _emacs or .emacs.el or whatever); I don't see > a way to determine where *other* configuration files should go. XEmacs doesn't enforce it (we can't without imposing a gratuitous incompatibility, since until now Emacs hasn't really had the concept), but the variable `user-init-directory' is available to any library that wants an Emacs-specific place to put things. This is normally initialized to "~/.xemacs" by startup.el.