From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:25:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy4emol4v.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h9la3k3k.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:48:31 +0200")
> Which is what we did. One is "directory name", the other "directory
> file name".
But "directory name" is a term which already has another
meaning elsewhere. I'm fine with "directory file name" for the
"non-slashed version" but for the slashed version we need something
*else* than either of those two.
This way, when we say "directory name" it will mean what everybody else
means by it.
>> Why put the burden on the poor end user who barely understands what
>> add-to-list does?
> The burden is not on the user, it's on us, the Emacs developers.
> Users are still free to do what they want with load-path.
So developers have to accept both slashed and non-slashed names in
load-path. Glad we agree.
> I already answered that, more than once: consistency, which makes it
> easier to have a more accurate doc string.
I don't care if we put things in a consistent state (in the sense that
I don't oppose it). But we still allow other people to do it
inconsistently, so we can't declare that load-path should only contain
"directory file names".
> We are now back to the beginning of this discussion, for the second
> time. Can we please stop this, and agree to disagree? Please?
I want the docstring of load-path to be changed not to say "directory
file names".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-28 19:25 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <E1Zpcoe-00030Q-LS@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-10-24 13:49 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names Stefan Monnier
2015-10-24 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-24 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-25 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-26 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 9:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-24 21:37 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-25 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 13:19 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 13:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-26 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-26 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 18:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-26 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 19:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-27 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 4:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-26 18:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-27 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 0:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-28 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 1:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-26 20:02 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 20:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-27 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 19:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-27 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-27 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 7:34 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-28 15:49 ` Davis Herring
2015-10-28 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-28 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-10-28 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 20:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-28 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 8:24 ` David Kastrup
2015-10-29 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 21:02 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-29 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-29 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 5:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-23 14:14 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-23 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 18:19 ` Random832
2015-10-28 22:04 ` Random832
2015-10-29 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-29 13:30 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-10-29 2:32 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-29 4:33 ` Random832
2015-10-29 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 16:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-29 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-29 18:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-10-30 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-30 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-30 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-10-30 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-30 1:34 ` Richard Stallman
2015-10-30 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-28 1:31 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 17:55 ` Stephen Leake
2015-10-26 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-26 19:49 ` Stephen Leake
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