From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: on specifying the C source code directory Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:23:54 +0100 Message-ID: <8737tbh8xh.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87oac34e2o.fsf@debian.uxu> <871t8z6tgc.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87io297a26.fsf@debian.uxu> <0q7fio63c2.fsf_-_@toledo.com> <87egcwhah7.fsf@mbork.pl> <20160201123254.GA14737@tuxteam.de> <0qlh744c19.fsf@toledo.com> <87zivk7yps.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454397862 29279 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2016 07:24:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 07:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 08:24:14 2016 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 1aQVJu-0006HF-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 08:24:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQVJt-0006iU-GJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:24:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41523) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQVJi-0006i6-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQVJe-000478-8A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:50046) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQVJe-000470-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751759D2002; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:23:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id U5ZT3U+5WYc1; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:23:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3310C9D2001; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:23:55 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 In-reply-to: <87zivk7yps.fsf@debian.uxu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 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:108957 Archived-At: On 2016-02-02, at 01:17, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Daniel Bastos writes: > >> (setq find-function-C-source-directory >> (file-name-as-directory "path/to/my/emacs/src")) > > `file-name-as-directory' just adds a trail slash so > that can be added manually. As the docstring says, in Unix this is so. I don't know about other systems. > Also, it doesn't seem to be necessary! I never thought > about it, but I see now that I have it like this - no > slash - and it has always worked just the same: > > (defvar find-function-C-source-directory) > (setq find-function-C-source-directory "~/.emacs.d/emacs-24.1/src") Out of curiosity: why defvar? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University