From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Portable dir-path separator? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:15 +0200 Message-ID: <871u7og39w.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372269708 14365 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2013 18:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:01:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 26 20:01:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Uru2M-0005bD-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uru2L-0005Re-KK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uru28-0005Qh-N2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uru26-00071j-Q3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uru26-00071S-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uru24-0005Lo-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:28 +0200 Original-Received: from g231233094.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.233.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:28 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231233094.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231233094.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nswlk9RsCd9gm9TRtQHnhvXUsvA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91743 Archived-At: Hi List, is it portable to split absolute file names in Emacs Lisp with "/" as separator? I searched for a related variable that abstracts away the slash vs. backslash issue, but did not find one (`path-separator' is ':' under GNU/Linux and probably not what I'm looking for). -- cheers, Thorsten