From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: relative load-file
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:20:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvskckk0aj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6cd6de210911111701s5d5a989fp27386dd1379065ff@mail.gmail.com> (Rocky Bernstein's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:01:24 -0500")
> When load-file-name is nil, this uses the name of default directory of
> current buffer. But that's not the same as the directory of the file
> containing the load-relative function.
> For example, I could have eval'd a buffer that did a load-relative of a file
> in a different directory. Even without this, I can change the default
> directory using the cd function. And changing the default directory never
> changes the file location of the file issuing load-relative.
> Any other thoughts?
You obviously know enough about the problem to "fix it" further
(e.g. using buffer-file-name if you prefer it to default-directory).
I don't see any point in fixing it further, since there will always be
corner cases where it doesn't do what the user intended.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-12 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 17:01 relative load-file Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-11 18:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-11 19:26 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-11 19:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-11-11 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-11 21:21 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-11 23:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 1:01 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-12 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-12 2:09 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-12 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-12 13:01 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-12 13:52 ` spedrosa
2009-11-12 14:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-12 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-13 4:34 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-13 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-13 15:03 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-13 16:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-13 16:39 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-14 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-14 15:44 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-15 21:59 ` M Jared Finder
2009-11-18 3:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-15 22:38 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-15 23:50 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-18 12:10 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-18 13:39 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-21 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-22 4:45 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-23 2:29 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 15:04 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-24 14:11 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-13 5:24 grischka
2009-11-13 5:59 ` Rocky Bernstein
2009-11-13 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-13 15:06 ` Rocky Bernstein
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