emacs 26 manual

emacs 26 manual

[James Yoo]

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In section 24.8

"A list entry in load-path can also have the special value nil, which
stands for the current default directory, but it is almost always a bad
idea to use this."

Is there a missing cross reference here? Seems that an explanation would be
called for.

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RE: emacs 26 manual

[Drew Adams]

> In section 24.8
>
> "A list entry in load-path can also have the special
> value nil, which stands for the current default directory,
> but it is almost always a bad idea to use this."

FWIW, "a list entry in `load-path'" sounds to me like it
could easily be misinterpreted as a _list-valued_ entry
in the list `load-path'.  (Of course, nil is a list value.)

I think it would be clearer to just talk about "an element
of `load-path'" having the value nil.

I think that's a more typical way of talking about an
element of a list: call it an element of the list, not
a list entry in the list.

Re: emacs 26 manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Yoo <james.yoo@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 02:39:21 +0000
> 
> In section 24.8
> 
> "A list entry in load-path can also have the special value nil, which stands for the current default directory, but
> it is almost always a bad idea to use this."
> 
> Is there a missing cross reference here? Seems that an explanation would be called for.

Thanks, I added a short explanation.

Re: emacs 26 manual

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  > I think it would be clearer to just talk about "an element
  > of `load-path'" having the value nil.

I agree.

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