From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Barclay Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another word for "path"? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:42:33 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E4A9599.9291907F@smart.net> References: <84hec65ylb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045076003 15968 80.91.224.249 (12 Feb 2003 18:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18j1pE-0003Mq-00 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:41:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j1pv-0000Cv-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j1pb-0008TF-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j1pZ-0008PF-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:42:01 -0500 Original-Received: from gemini.smart.net ([205.197.48.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j1pY-0008L1-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from smart.net (IDENT:501@dsb.smart.net [216.253.158.43]) by gemini.smart.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA19628; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:41:51 -0500 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18+dsb+smp+ide i686) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Kai =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gro=DFjohann?= X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by gemini.smart.net id NAA19628 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6595 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6595 Kai Gro=DFjohann wrote: >=20 > A Tramp filename consists of the following parts: >=20 > - a method specification > - a user name > - a host name > - and a path specifying the file on the remote host >=20 > 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 --=20 Daniel Barclay dsb@smart.net