From: Daniel Barclay <dsb@smart.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another word for "path"?
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:42:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E4A9599.9291907F@smart.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84hec65ylb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de
Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
> A Tramp filename consists of the following parts:
>
> - a method specification
> - a user name
> - a host name
> - and a path specifying the file on the remote host
>
> Now the GNU coding standards say that the word "path" is defined as a
> list of directories, such as those found in $PATH and $MANPATH.
That's a search path. (If GNU calls that "path," they're being
ambiguous.)
> Which word could I use for the fourth component of a Tramp filename?
That's a pathname (a name based on a traversal path through a tree
graph representing a name hierarchy).
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-12 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-18 14:20 Another word for "path"? Kai Großjohann
2003-01-18 14:57 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2003-01-18 16:37 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-18 17:47 ` Billy O'Connor
2003-01-18 19:02 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2003-01-18 21:01 ` Andrew Markebo
2003-01-18 15:03 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2003-01-18 19:43 ` Galen Boyer
2003-01-18 21:07 ` Harry Putnam
2003-01-18 21:28 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-18 21:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-18 21:35 ` Romain FRANCOISE
2003-01-18 22:28 ` gebser
2003-01-19 5:43 ` David Masterson
2003-01-19 20:21 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-01-21 17:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-21 18:23 ` Barry Margolin
2003-01-22 18:37 ` David Masterson
2003-01-22 18:49 ` Barry Margolin
2003-01-21 22:12 ` Johan Bockgård
2003-02-12 18:42 ` Daniel Barclay [this message]
2003-02-12 18:44 ` Daniel Barclay
[not found] ` <mailman.1885.1045075529.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-13 7:28 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-02-13 9:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-13 15:42 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2003-02-13 17:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-13 21:40 ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2003-02-14 16:04 ` Rodney Sparapani
2003-02-14 17:09 ` Kai Großjohann
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2003-01-21 22:34 Bingham, Jay
[not found] <mailman.739.1043188595.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-22 8:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-22 18:55 Bingham, Jay
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