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: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20151023135532.11512.53356@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83mvv8wejc.fsf@gnu.org> <86bnboeymw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83wpuadc9k.fsf@gnu.org> <86d1w1ahsy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <562E2A8A.1030601@yandex.ru> <83wpu9bns4.fsf@gnu.org> <86fv0x8kl6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83d1w0416d.fsf@gnu.org> <8337ww3ypz.fsf@gnu.org> <83vb9r2ddg.fsf@gnu.org> <87io5qamat.fsf@fastmail.com> <87bnbiabup.fsf@fastmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446086086 31271 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2015 02:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 02:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Random832 Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 03:34:36 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 1Zrd2w-0002w6-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:34:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zrd2w-0000NL-9n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zrd2s-0000NB-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zrd2s-0006a6-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39295) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zrd2p-0006Zj-VX; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zrd2p-0001iq-At; Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bnbiabup.fsf@fastmail.com> (message from Random832 on Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:04:46 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:192853 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I think the intent of the existing documentation is that a so-called > > "directory name" is the one that may be concatenated to a filename to > > form a path. In GNU, we reserve the term "path" for a list of directories to search. We use the term "file name" to refer to a name that can be used to open a file. This eliminates an illogical ambiguity in Unix terminology. Normally you can concatenate a directory name with a relative file name to get an absolute file name that starts from that directory. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.