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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `make' written in elisp
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:45:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvfaecvis.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c4f177$Blat.v2.2.2$cb741080@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:36:06 +0200")

>> Well, at least a standard function for finding the path name of an
>> executable in PATH and/or in general a file in a set of locations
>> might be nice to have.

> We already have that, I think:

>     locate-file-internal is a built-in function in `C source code'.
>     (locate-file-internal FILENAME PATH &optional SUFFIXES PREDICATE)

I'd rather advertise locate-file.  There's also executable-find.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-03 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-30 19:31 `make' written in elisp Michael Schierl
2003-12-31 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-31 23:14   ` Michael Schierl
2004-01-01 21:10     ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-01 21:37       ` Michael Schierl
2004-01-04 23:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-02 16:06   ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-02 23:22     ` David Kastrup
2005-01-02 23:55       ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03  0:07         ` David Kastrup
2005-01-03  0:25           ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03  4:32             ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-03  8:02               ` David Kastrup
2005-01-03  9:36                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-03 16:45                   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-01-03  9:10               ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 18:29                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-03 19:28                   ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03 23:10                     ` David Kastrup
2005-01-04  3:38                     ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-04 11:17                       ` Ralf Angeli
2005-01-03  0:26       ` Stefan
2005-01-03 11:05         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-01-03 17:16           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-04 12:00             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2005-01-04 13:59               ` Stefan
2005-01-04 14:07                 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-31 22:31 ` patch for locate-file-completion? Nic Ferrier
2004-04-01 17:34   ` Richard Stallman
     [not found] <E1CloEh-0004Sl-Hg@monty-python.gnu.org>
2005-01-04 16:10 ` `make' written in elisp Eric M. Ludlam

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