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: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:24:34 +0900 Message-ID: <87fy4m59jx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <86r6o91zmd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182392043 24994 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 02:14:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , miles@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 04:14:00 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 1I1CBM-0007hC-07 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:14:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1CBL-0004QO-Fl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1CBI-0004QI-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1CBG-0004Q6-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1CBG-0004Q3-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:13:54 -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 1I1CBE-0001ho-KL; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:13:52 -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 478DC1535AF; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:13:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BCC271A25E5; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:24:34 +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:73489 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > What about the variable `user-emacs-directory'? That is surely not the > "best name for it". > > It is the best of all the names suggested so far. *sigh* For the record, I disgree strongly. All of the other names suggested so far are better. This one has no intuitive meaning to me, except "the directory where I keep .emacs". That already has a reasonably expressive name with a decade of history in XEmacs: `user-init-directory'.