From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21962: 25.0.50; doc of `normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path' Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 00:26:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87eg9m7myg.fsf@gnus.org> References: <4c09cdd8-32cc-4d67-92fb-bfd20e404c80@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462055259 19154 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2016 22:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21962@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 01 00:27:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1awdMH-0002oZ-F3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 00:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awdMD-0000WI-K5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awdM5-0000Js-JL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awdLt-0002c0-Sd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awdLt-0002au-PV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1awdLq-0000Ls-Eb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:27:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21962 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21962-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21962.14620551821237 (code B ref 21962); Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21962) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Apr 2016 22:26:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58705 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1awdLC-0000Jt-4U for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:32980) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1awdL9-0000Ji-SZ for 21962@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.1.64.getinternet.no ([84.215.1.64] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1awdL6-0007hk-0O; Sun, 01 May 2016 00:26:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4c09cdd8-32cc-4d67-92fb-bfd20e404c80@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:15:52 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:117465 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Looking at the code, it seems that this function does not add only > subdirectories of the current `default-directory'. It seems to add all > descendant directories of `default-directory'. > > A subdirectory is a child, not a grandchild etc. I believe that is the > usual terminology. It is, in any case, the terminology that Emacs uses > in, for example Dired. It is also why the doc uses language such as > "with subdirectories handled recursively" to distinguish the practice of > handling not only the subdirectories of a directory, but their > subdirectories, and so on, recursively. > > So IIUC what the function does, IMO its description is incorrect. Or at > best it is misleading, if you claim that "subdirectory" means any > descendant directory. Please change the doc to make clear just what > directories are added to `load-path'. I've now done so. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no