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: Files that begin with a period Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224786592 12679 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2008 18:29:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 20:30:53 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kt4xI-0008UL-A1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:30:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt4wC-0008Ij-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt4w8-0008IK-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt4w4-0008Hq-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47776 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt4w4-0008Hn-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:46434 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kt4w2-00039C-30; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:26 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjMFANReAElFxLrB/2dsb2JhbACBdsELg06BCw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,471,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="28783324" Original-Received: from 69-196-186-193.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.186.193]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 23 Oct 2008 14:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CE78480DF; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:32:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (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:104906 Archived-At: >> I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the >> constant. There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces >> gratuitous back-compatibility problems. > I'm quite agnostic about the names, but a *great* deal of the thread > was choosing appropriate ones, and XEmacs compatibility and prior art > were involved. Stephen J. Turnbull participated in the discussion and > was willing to add the function to XEmacs, IIRC. Please install your locate-user-data-path function, except "path" should be changed to "file" and "data" might need to be changed to "emacs" because: as for user-emacs-directory vs user-data-directory, I don't see the advantage of user-data-directory: AFAIK XEmacs uses user-init-directory, so XEmacs (in)compatibility is not the issue. Stefan