From: Greg Farough <gregf@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: missing "/" in value of user-emacs-directory when using --init-directory flag
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:01:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868rjttwjv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SJ0PR10MB54880EDBCFBC25389D6DE493F3129@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
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On Tue, Nov 29 2022, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Don't use 'concat' for file names; use expand-file-name instead.
>
> This seems to be a fairly common question/misstep.
> I wonder if it might be worthwhile to mention this
> in the doc string of `concat'. That's the most
> likely string-manipulation function to be (mis)used
> for file-name manipulation.
I've been using Emacs for years and just learned this today from Eli's
message, so, probably.
No one ever said that I was using Emacs _well_, though.
-g
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-29 17:55 missing "/" in value of user-emacs-directory when using --init-directory flag Yilkal Argaw
2022-11-29 18:11 ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-11-29 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-29 18:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-29 19:01 ` Greg Farough [this message]
2022-11-29 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-29 20:58 ` Greg Farough
2022-11-29 21:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-29 23:04 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-02 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2022-12-03 6:47 ` Yuri Khan
2022-12-02 13:20 ` Robin Tarsiger
2022-12-12 3:41 ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-12-12 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-12 18:04 ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-12-12 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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