From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:33:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvps3xs39l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0706150421ra431c9eofc0c6b11dbe066c2@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 13\:21\:37 +0200")
> Then the recently introduced `user-emacs-directory' should be renamed
> to `user-init-directory',
Indeed. Please: could someone do that?
> The variable currently must end with a directory separator, but that could
> be fixed.
It should be fixed. We should be careful to make it work with or without
a terminating / since it can be set by the user. If we systematically use
it with expand-file-name, this will work automatically.
> (defun user-emacs-file (name &optional new-name)
If we rename the variable to user-init-directory, then the function should
probably be called user-init-file.
> "Convert NAME to an absolute per-user Emacs-specific path.
> If \"~/NAME\" exists, or `user-emacs-directory' is nil, return \"~/NAME\".
> Else, return \"`user-emacs-directory'/NEW-NAME\", or /NAME if NEW-NAME is nil."
> (convert-standard-filename
> (let ((at-home (expand-file-name name (concat "~" init-file-user))))
> (if (or (file-readable-p at-home)
> (null user-emacs-directory))
> at-home
> (or (file-accessible-directory-p (directory-file-name
> user-emacs-directory))
> (progn (make-directory user-emacs-directory) t) ;; don't
> catch errors
> (expand-file-name (or new-name name) user-emacs-directory))))))
In most places that introduced the ~/.emacs.d thingy, they typically first
check ~/.emacs.d/TOTO then ~/.TOTO and if neither is present return
~/.emacs.d/TOTO.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 16:22 Don't concat directories to file names Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 15:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 17:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-14 21:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 1:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 9:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 10:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 11:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 14:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 18:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-06-15 16:39 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-15 16:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 0:38 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-16 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-16 3:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 22:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 23:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 19:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 20:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-17 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-18 7:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 13:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-20 14:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-20 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 8:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-06-21 8:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 1:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 9:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 15:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 18:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-26 0:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-25 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 19:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-25 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 20:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 2:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-21 8:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-21 8:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 5:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 16:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
2007-06-14 21:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 21:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-15 7:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:40 ` Tom Tromey
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