From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:38:16 +0900 Message-ID: <87y7iksphj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181954311 14533 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 00:38:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 02:38:29 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 1HzMJ9-0007WY-3R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:38:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzMJ8-000688-GN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzMJ5-00067t-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzMJ3-00067h-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzMJ3-00067e-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzMJ1-0003iv-CF; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-102-031.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.102.31] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1HzMIy-0008GF-3O; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:38:16 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A6D2E2F41; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:38:16 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 18\:41\:12 +0200") Original-Lines: 16 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:73034 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: >> Er, well, "init" seems ... wrong. It's used for more than "init files". > > I agree, but it is a minor point and the name has prior art... So let's use the better name and add a variable-alias for xemacs compability. 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! -miles -- .Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.