From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: deego@gnufans.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:14:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ds5bE-0005H2-JU@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85br59aidt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:53:18 +0200)
> It is not just frequent, it is what we have always called "the right
> way". Using concat has been slightly deprecated, partly because it
> won't work in the case where the directory name fails to end in a
> slash.
Can't happen when file-name-as-directory is used, right?
The method of using concat *and* file-name-as-directory is a reliable
method. However, it is considerably more cumbersome than just using
concat--or just using expand-file-name.
So maybe it will work better to define a convenient function
as the new recommendation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-11 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 19:07 Emacs and Squiggles as filenames D Goel
2005-07-09 4:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09 4:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10 4:05 ` Paul Jarc
2005-07-10 8:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 5:34 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 7:53 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 21:14 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-07-11 12:37 ` D Goel
2005-07-11 13:41 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
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