From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Files that begin with a period
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqroybra.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzll0khdl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:29:26 +0200")
> I installed today in several Lisp files, including in the `lisp/org'
> directory, changes that run file names which supply values to
> defcustom's through `convert-standard-filename'. This is for when
> Emacs runs on 8+3 (a.k.a. DOS) filesystems that do not allow file
> names with a leading period. (On modern filesystems,
> `convert-standard-filename' leaves the file name intact.)
It would probably be good to try and use user-emacs-directory for those
file names.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-19 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 10:29 Files that begin with a period Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-19 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-19 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-20 9:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-20 11:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-23 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-23 21:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-24 9:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-24 4:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-10-24 10:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-20 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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