Re: Don't concat directories to file names

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

Juanma Barranquero writes:

 > On 6/14/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > XEmacs has a whole API for finding user data.  The main function is
 > >
 > > (find-user-init-file &optional INIT-DIRECTORY HOME-DIRECTORY)
 > >
 > > Documentation:
 > > Determine the user's init file.
 > 
 > Could you please elaborate? (Or there is any way to find that
 > feature's docs, other than installing XEmacs?)

Not my place to elaborate; Mike designed it AFAIK.  For example, I
think your design which has the user name as an argument makes sense;
why Mike did *not* do it that way I don't know.  Please ask him.

If you want to look at docs, you'll probably want to install XEmacs.
It's consider internal to startup.el, and not documented in the Lisp
Reference according C-h C-f.  C-h a user.*file RET will give a list of
related functions; in XEmacs the preferred style is to provide
docstrings even for internal functions, so that's probably the best
we've got.

The Lisp Reference for XEmacs is available online at
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/.  Source for these APIs will be in

http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/startup.el?rev=1.58&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

but internal evidence suggests that copyrights are not up-to-date and
I don't know Mike's code's assignment status, so you may wish to take
care when looking at that.