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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:34:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <853b3v3j2f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uircs3v0p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 23 Mar 2007 16\:16\:22 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:29:25 +0100
>> 
>> Both problems appear fixed with the following rather straightforward
>> patch.  While it clearly fixes faulty behavior, it could be considered
>> bordering on "new feature".
>> 
>> Should I still apply it?
>
> That's something for Richard to decide.
>
>> ! 	      (unless path (setq path (split-string (getenv "PATH") ":" t)))
>
> Please don't install such unportable code: only Posix platforms use
> `:' to separate directories in PATH and other similar variables.
> Please use `path-separator' instead.

Thanks, that was important information.  It would not have broken
previously existing behavior, but would not have helped, either.  I'll
rework the patch.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23 10:29 Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements David Kastrup
2007-03-23 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-23 18:34   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-03-23 20:03     ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 20:12       ` Drew Adams
2007-03-23 20:25         ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 21:09       ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-24 15:09   ` David Kastrup
2007-03-24 16:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-24 17:07       ` David Kastrup
2007-03-24 17:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-31 15:25   ` David Kastrup

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