From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:25:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181949918 4743 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 23:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Miles Bader To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 01:25:15 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 1HzLAD-0005i9-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:25:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzLAD-0005eR-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzLA9-0005eC-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzLA7-0005dn-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzLA7-0005db-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:03 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.225]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzLA6-0003Ci-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h26so1148830wxd for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:25:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XrwGp1Uq4vmbSKtjGYhREd+109XPTgZE9DxgHMJ/EgCvbQIf17Yv4MwGNwUzOtziptI40Q4g7yjzKQxINbjOga7vnSFikhJeW+qvI1UQBeVKudUEft0f9TmryHYOiuTAgQ8k579Zd0yxscyFyfa8ad8GwCzdyqnsf8WtA3dr3dM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a5HJM3+AEKlNKnpMbqKkcZAJqqaH/9jNV6EmdEpmZX1fihLQHdOH5qMyT3xySHovyCTVHetF8sZKfYCrlBTK3OJvtDt1XK/Ptp43IBBippt0ryT+SZ8fsa9AvOfYjE/psfGwCuSxTplpCYHPt3XuaRlPwiiEAMoidxlRSp0seZY= Original-Received: by 10.90.97.11 with SMTP id u11mr3187247agb.1181949901769; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:25:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:73027 Archived-At: On 6/16/07, Richard Stallman wrote: > I agree. "config" is also wrong; this is not just used for > configurations. In fact, the current name `user-emacs-directory' > seems the best of those three. I'm not sure what to expect from a "user Emacs directory" either... Perhaps `user-data-directory' would be vague enough. > I agree, but it is a minor point and the name has prior art... Because, as Stephen has said, a variable with the same purpose and the name `user-init-directory' has existed in XEmacs for ten years. Adding the same variable with a different name is incompatibility for incompatibility's sake; and more so because most uses of it will be hidden after the proposed `find-user-config-file' function (with whatever name). Juanma