From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:24:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87vb9q13rg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20151023135532.11512.53356@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <86bnboeymw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83wpuadc9k.fsf@gnu.org> <86d1w1ahsy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <562E2A8A.1030601@yandex.ru> <83wpu9bns4.fsf@gnu.org> <86fv0x8kl6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83d1w0416d.fsf@gnu.org> <8337ww3ypz.fsf@gnu.org> <83vb9r2ddg.fsf@gnu.org> <83pozz2aup.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9la3k3k.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnbi3g2l.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446107082 14427 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2015 08:24:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:24:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 09:24:42 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZriVg-0001ei-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:24:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZriVf-0005B5-PU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZriVR-0005At-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZriVR-0006zS-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZriVR-0006zO-1C; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56652 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZriVQ-0001BS-5U; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C1D41DF57B; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:24:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:18:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192862 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> That term was defined in the manual for many years to mean the version >> with the trailing slash. > > I'd be interested to know what percentage of people on this list knew > that "directory name" in Emacs meant strictly "something with a trailing > slash". It doesn't on VMS. Which is one the salient points. It likely does on Windows/MSDOS since C:filename and C:\filename mean entirely different things. -- David Kastrup