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: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:29:29 +0900 Message-ID: <87k5ty66nq.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 1182349140 9155 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 14:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 16:18:59 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 1I111K-0001rt-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:18:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I111J-00056V-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I111G-00056E-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I111G-000562-6T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I111G-00055z-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:18:50 -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 1I111E-00015O-Dz; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:18:48 -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 A35D18001; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:18:46 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C98A71A260D; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:29:29 +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:73428 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > Perhaps we could name the variable `user-data-directory' and the > function `find-user-data-file'. That name for the variable is fine with me. The user-init-directory can continue to have the semantics we've used to date, and user-data-directory will probably default to that in XEmacs. Regarding `find-user-data-file', XEmacs distinguishes between "locating" a file (those functions return file names), and "finding" a file (those functions switch to a buffer visiting the file). I forget which your function does.... I don't have a strong feeling about this, but Emacs makes a similar distinction with "find-library" vs. "locate-library". Maybe it's worth being consistent?