From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87abv0cwd9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182020007 10050 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 18:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 20:53:25 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 1HzdOm-0006Ra-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:53:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdOl-0002by-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdME-0000HY-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdMD-0000Fd-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzdMC-0000FR-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdMC-0006Gf-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzdMB-0006qx-PP; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:50:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <87abv0cwd9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) 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:73085 Archived-At: The question is not how the directory is used; it is how the variable is used. To XEmacs-the-program, and its subsystems, the operational meaning is "when you [re]*init*[ialize] the environment, the *user*'s configuration files may be found in this *directory*." The names `emacs-config-directory' or `emacs-init-directory' seem to fit what XEmacs does. In Emacs, the directory is used for many other things, including auto-saving. So that name is not appropriate in Emacs.