From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: find-function-source-directory Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:18:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83h8qe9hld.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tvue9m4t.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518985044 14961 195.159.176.226 (18 Feb 2018 20:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:17:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 18 21:17:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1enVOa-00037G-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:17:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46431 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enVQc-0003Ii-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enVQD-0003IZ-9V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enVQ8-0004gY-Bj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:18:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1enVQ8-0004gS-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1502 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1enVQ7-0000zu-KC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:18:48 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:53:19 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116039 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:53:19 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > > 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.