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 03:09:08 +0900 Message-ID: <87ejkdccor.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hcp9cnbs.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181930336 6908 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 17:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 19:58:55 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 1HzG4Q-00082X-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:58:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzG4Q-0003j3-2L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzG4M-0003il-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzG4L-0003hH-FX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzG4L-0003h1-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzG4J-0000rD-UE; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED887FFC; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:58:39 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8768D1A260D; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:09:09 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: 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:72981 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > > The trick of doing > > > > (defun user-init-directory () > Yes, but that adds API complexity. Sure. Since as Stefan points out it should be used in the context of expand-file-name anyway, this can't really help, so I withdraw the suggestion. > > How does "user-configuration-file" or > > "find-user-configuration-file" sound? (Of course "configuration" > > could be shortened to "config".) > > Good, I like `user-config-file' or `find-user-config-file'. Stefan has > proposed `user-init-file', but I don't like it because it seems > related to .emacs/init.el (as the variable of the same name is). I agree. I think the fact that there is a variable of that name with a quite distinct meaning would be too confusing.