From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodney Sparapani Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another word for "path"? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:04:26 -0600 Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E4D138A.6090201@mcw.edu> References: <84hec65ylb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87el6czlkt.fsf@fbigm.here> <847kc44jbc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <873cmsmbkb.fsf@fbigm.here> <84isvokszk.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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045240277 20742 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 16:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:31:17 +0000 (UTC) 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 18jiVO-0004Op-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:16:02 +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 18jiUr-0000SF-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:15:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!wiscnews.wiscnet.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: markov.biostat.mcw.edu Original-X-Trace: wiscnews.wiscnet.net 1045238666 21322 141.106.120.18 (14 Feb 2003 16:04:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@wiscnews.wiscnet.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2003 16:04:26 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110192 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:6695 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6695 Kai Großjohann wrote: >Hm? There are two kinds of Tramp filenames, multi-hop names and >normal names. Normal names look like this: > > /method:user@host:/path/to/file > >Multi-hop names look like this (using "[...]" to indicate that I've >left out something): > > /multi:m1:u1@h1:m2:u2@h2:[...]:mN:uN@hN:/path/to/file > >In both cases, I'm looking for a word that describes "/path/to/file". > >So if a hostname is mentioned in "/path/to/file", it will not be >interpreted specially. > >It *is* somewhat confusing that the "localname" names a file on a >remote host, but that just depends on the way you look at it... > > I agree that "localname" is confusing. It seems to me that "/path/to/file" is what the emacs documentation calls "directory", i.e. "directory/file". Also, the documentation mentions "absolute path name" which would start with either / or ~. I might further qualify it by "absolute/relative path name" when I'm referring to the concept of "directory/file". As a final thought, I have also struggled with the GNU Emacs/elisp Coding Standards and I think it would be helpful if they addressed both "path" and "file name" with examples that demonstrate what the standards actually want (perhaps this will do :o). -- Rodney Sparapani Medical College of Wisconsin Sr. Biostatistician Patient Care & Outcomes Research rsparapa@mcw.edu http://www.mcw.edu/pcor Was 'Name That Tune' rigged? WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do