From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hbzzs7ax.fsf@gmail.com> <8363gfe2r1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241907831 2598 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2009 22:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 22:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Berry , emacs-devel To: Vincent =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bela=EFche?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 00:23:41 2009 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 1M2uxI-0004NH-OR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 00:23:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37804 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2uxI-0003bn-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2uxC-0003bW-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M2ux7-0003We-6U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47512 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M2ux6-0003Wb-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:31008 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2ux6-00062n-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkwJANafBUrO+IYe/2dsb2JhbACBUIEwyi+DfgWFWQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,322,1238990400"; d="scan'208";a="38289793" Original-Received: from 206-248-134-30.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.134.30]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 09 May 2009 18:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 23D267FA7; Sat, 9 May 2009 18:23:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: ("Vincent =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bela=EFche=22's?= message of "Sat, 9 May 2009 20:58:08 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:110807 Archived-At: > The for is there mainly to extract the directory path, so that if you > launch the guessed command on some foo.info file, foo.info is > installed in the dir file that is in the same directory where > foo.info is. At least on the POSIX side, the `for' does not help you get the directory path. Stefan