From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find-function-source-directory
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:18:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h8qe9hld.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8455f40-e18a-44ac-8523-435e84f2d2e8@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:53:19 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:53:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> > Anything that is called "path" should be a list of directories, nopt a
> > single file name (this is GNU, remember?). So try something like
> > this:
> >
> > (setq find-function-source-path
> > '("c:/projects/emacs/lisp/"
> > "c:/projects/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/"
> > "c:/projects/emacs/lisp/net/"
> > ...))
>
> FWIW, I don't think Emacs calls even such a list a "path".
>
> I'd suggest a name such as `find-function-source-dirs'
> or `find-function-source-directories' or
> `find-function-source-dir-list'.
>
> The value is a list of directories.
In GNU, a "path" is a list of directories. The separator is
colon/semi-colon in a shell, but in Lisp it's a simple list. Cf.
load-path, exec-path, image-load-path, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-18 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-18 16:16 find-function-source-directory Richard Copley
2018-02-18 18:40 ` find-function-source-directory Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-18 19:35 ` find-function-source-directory Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-19 11:13 ` find-function-source-directory Richard Copley
2018-02-19 11:44 ` find-function-source-directory tomas
2018-02-19 15:36 ` find-function-source-directory Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-19 15:43 ` find-function-source-directory tomas
2018-02-18 19:53 ` find-function-source-directory Drew Adams
2018-02-18 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <<a8455f40-e18a-44ac-8523-435e84f2d2e8@default>
[not found] ` <<83h8qe9hld.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-02-18 21:56 ` find-function-source-directory Drew Adams
2018-02-19 3:24 ` find-function-source-directory Richard Copley
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