From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: load-path contains directories or directory names? Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 08:46:21 -0500 Message-ID: <86wpu991zm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <86lhauus4x.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87vb9x42io.fsf@web.de> <867fmcey8k.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83vb9udc86.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445867244 17676 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2015 13:47:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:47:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 26 14:47:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zqi76-00034i-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:47:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zqi76-0004Z2-2D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zqi6n-0004XV-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zqi6f-0008Hr-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from gproxy8-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([67.222.33.93]:34973) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zqi6f-0008He-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 24912 invoked by uid 0); 26 Oct 2015 13:46:35 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw4) (10.0.90.85) by gproxy8.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 26 Oct 2015 13:46:35 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by cmgw4 with id ZpmQ1r0272UdiVW01pmTW3; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:46:35 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=IekUBwaa c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=x_XPkuGwIRMA:10 a=5lJygRwiOn0A:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=MX59TJhx5SQsAttOiUAA:9 Original-Received: from [76.218.37.33] (port=58786 helo=TAKVER2) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Zqi6S-0001bw-Kf; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:46:24 -0600 In-Reply-To: <83vb9udc86.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 2015 20:39:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 76.218.37.33 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 67.222.33.93 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192656 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > In addition, on MS-Windows 'expand-file-name' converts all backslashes > to forward slashes, thus producing nicer and more "standard" results. This raises this issue of whether elements in `load-path' can have backslashes (or other syntax on VMS? not that we support VMS anymore, but I'm feeling nostalgic :). I always assume `load-path' has canonical Emacs file name format, but the doc string doesn't say that, and on Windows it would seem "natural" to add directory file names with backslashes. -- -- Stephe