From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:14:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ll4iph80.fsf@gnufans.net> <8564vjhxjw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85br59aidt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121117402 590 80.91.229.2 (11 Jul 2005 21:30:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: deego@gnufans.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 23:29:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds5pf-00070W-CD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:28:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds5rF-0000zv-Nc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds5nr-0007ty-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds5nc-0007lW-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ds5na-0007j8-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ds5lX-0001sX-St for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ds5bE-0005H2-JU; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:14:00 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85br59aidt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:53:18 +0200) 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:40800 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40800 > It is not just frequent, it is what we have always called "the right > way". Using concat has been slightly deprecated, partly because it > won't work in the case where the directory name fails to end in a > slash. Can't happen when file-name-as-directory is used, right? The method of using concat *and* file-name-as-directory is a reliable method. However, it is considerably more cumbersome than just using concat--or just using expand-file-name. So maybe it will work better to define a convenient function as the new recommendation.