From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: load-path contains directories or directory names? Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:57:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb9x42io.fsf@web.de> References: <86lhauus4x.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445641054 9863 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2015 22:57:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:57:34 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 24 00:57:27 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 1ZplH4-0004Fc-Ak for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:57:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZplH3-0001Yx-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZplH0-0001Yr-0X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZplGv-000198-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:57:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZplGv-000194-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZplGs-00043q-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:57:14 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-0-245.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.0.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:57:14 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-0-245.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:57:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-0-245.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MEgf7AsEchPSd0VG971MUlNT760= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:192523 Archived-At: Stephen Leake writes: > As part of the file completion code I'm working on, I need to build an > absolute file name from a directory and a non-directory. That's either: > > (concat dir name) > > or > > (concat dir "/" name) I try to avoid string operations on file names. In the above case, using (expand-file-name name dir) seems cleaner to me. And for DIR (docstring) even "both the directory name and a directory’s file name are accepted". Michael.