From: Yilkal Argaw <yilkalargawworkneh@gmail.com>
To: Robin Tarsiger <rtt@dasyatidae.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: missing "/" in value of user-emacs-directory when using --init-directory flag
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:41:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJddU=oBe7Z9JgHGM7YE0tf1rp95Pvua7+t2CKTo9-Ddz1JcUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47dca941-bf75-455b-f8b2-07b6574cbc79@dasyatidae.com>
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> While that's as may be in general, the docstring for user-emacs-directory
> (in my Emacs 28.2) states "Note that this should end with a directory
> separator." specifically, which I take to be part of the variable contract.
> Doesn't that imply that it is Emacs's responsibility to handle that aspect
> if setting user-emacs-directory based on a file name that may not satisfy
> that predicate?
>
> -RTT
Correct. consistency and standardization on such matters is better for
overall user experience.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-12 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-29 17:55 missing "/" in value of user-emacs-directory when using --init-directory flag Yilkal Argaw
2022-11-29 18:11 ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-11-29 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-29 18:56 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-29 19:01 ` Greg Farough
2022-11-29 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-11-29 20:58 ` Greg Farough
2022-11-29 21:54 ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-29 23:04 ` Drew Adams
2022-11-29 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2022-12-02 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2022-12-03 6:47 ` Yuri Khan
2022-12-02 13:20 ` Robin Tarsiger
2022-12-12 3:41 ` Yilkal Argaw [this message]
2022-12-12 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-12 18:04 ` Yilkal Argaw
2022-12-12 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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