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: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:07:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <86r6o91zmd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182388248 16284 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 01:10:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, miles@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 03:10:46 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 1I1BC6-0007in-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1BC6-0004yg-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1B9H-0001x8-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1B9H-0001wr-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1B9H-0001wm-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1B9G-00023T-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1B9G-0000Jk-B3; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:07:46 -0400 In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.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:73487 Archived-At: Stephen proposed `user-config-file' or `find-user-config-file', and I like them, but I think you said it is not only for configuration files. So, some permutation of `user', `local, `data' and `directory'. What about the variable `user-emacs-directory'? That is surely not the "best name for it". It is the best of all the names suggested so far. What these files all have in common is that they are used in special ways by Emacs. The function could be `locate-user-emacs-directory'