From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:53:16 +0900 Message-ID: <87bqfgcxfn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y7iksphj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181968980 10425 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 04:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 06:42:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HzQ7m-0001K4-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzQ7m-0000Y9-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzQ7h-0000V7-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:42:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzQ7e-0000Ru-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzQ7e-0000RZ-Al for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzQ7c-00025I-LL; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EF21535AC; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:42:46 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 478521A260D; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:53:17 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87y7iksphj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" (+CVS-20070324) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73044 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > If the xemacs people also use the directory for more than init files, > they could even make the same change to their system > ... variable-aliases are quite nice for backward compability! Please don't. For XEmacs, this variable is well-enough named that there have been no questions and no complaints for about ten years. I see no reason why it will not serve Emacs equally well for the next ten, even though it is perhaps suboptimal if there were no history.