From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using " rather than < for header files in Emacs Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:10:36 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56D772EC.5070509@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456960255 20241 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2016 23:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 23:10:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Wilfred Hughes , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 00:10:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1abFun-0002en-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:10:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abFun-0006aA-3x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:10:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42103) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abFuj-0006Zp-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:10:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abFuf-0006Xg-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:10:41 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:49487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abFuf-0006XW-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:10:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8A9160E6A; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:10:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id bHjkxm7mTHsl; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:10:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF66D160FF2; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:10:36 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id pi6BVvWQ8r-2; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:10:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9653D160E6A; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 15:10:36 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200876 Archived-At: On 03/02/2016 02:30 PM, Wilfred Hughes wrote: > I've noticed that it's common for Emacs C code to say: > > #include > > or > > #include > > even though these headers are from Emacs source, not system headers. > Are we interested in fixing this? I don't see why using " fixes anything. All these files have to compile with -I anyway, because builders don't need to build Emacs in the source directory. We might actually be better off using '<' for all includes.