From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: simple useful functions Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:19:00 -0700 Message-ID: <662F7C43C13D40309F9D72E311E77293@us.oracle.com> References: <20101028.115615.04128253.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com><87k4l1r7k5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp><20101029.111346.113803171.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com><0A81F397D65C44D0804AF87B424D207C@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288383575 24320 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2010 20:19:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, 'Tak Ota' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Andreas Schwab'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 29 22:19:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBvQC-0001A6-LZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:19:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBvQB-0006u1-MF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33411 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBvQ1-0006st-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBvPw-00052t-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:62632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBvPv-00051n-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o9TKJ9Gb024639 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:19:10 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o9TJrIEg027141; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:19:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt012.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 735312231288383541; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:19:01 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.237.112) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:19:00 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Act3nyVU1+ZkmHCHRCeP65+eKic/xgABTh9w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132178 Archived-At: > > So what makes `.' more portable than `source'? > > It works in any Bourne or POSIX (derived) shell. Swahili is a universal language ... among people who speak Swahili. `.' works in the Bourne-shell family. `source' works in the C-shell family. `bash' and `zsh' support both. If you want it to be _portable_, then test the value of argument SHELL and DTRT.