From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locate-file in Emacs
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:53:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sxsd6wyhfj6.fsf@florida.arsdigita.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <379-Wed17Apr2002084752+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:47:53 +0300")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> I'm not saying that we already have this functionality (I didn't
> check that), but I thought I'd mention similar functionality:
>
> - executable-find in executable.el
>
> - find-lisp.el
Yes, `locate-file' may be seen as a generalization of these, also
useful in other contexts. (E.g. finding data files, java classes,
whatever.)
> - the openp function (implemented in C) which can be used as a
> base for either a C primitive or a Lisp function (it is
> currently used by `load').
locate-file is used internally by XEmacs in ways similar to openp, but
I think the interface is nice, regardless of how it is implemented.
For instance, if you think the Lisp version is slow, or requires
caching, etc., that can be added without breaking the interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-17 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 5:05 locate-file in Emacs Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 8:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
2002-04-17 9:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 9:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-17 10:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 13:16 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 13:54 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:09 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 14:25 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 15:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-18 16:20 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 12:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-25 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 15:58 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205061655.g46Gt3K01382@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 19:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <200205062052.g46KqwO02482@rum.cs.yale.edu>
2002-05-06 20:59 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-06 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-06 21:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-05-07 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-18 16:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-19 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 15:31 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:29 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:45 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-18 16:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2002-04-18 16:54 ` Miles Bader
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