From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Minor problem in "Apropos" - 21.2.93 Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:53:42 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5xk7i7r4b1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040208994 19764 80.91.224.249 (18 Dec 2002 10:56:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ObsO-00058e-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:56:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Obsz-0001Rc-00 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:57:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ObrN-0007Y7-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:55:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Obqy-0007Qv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Obqo-0007Kj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Obqe-0007EM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:54:45 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08326; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:53:42 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: "Kim F. Storm" In-Reply-To: <5xk7i7r4b1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Original-cc: seagull@fastmail.fm X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10252 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10252 On 18 Dec 2002, Kim F. Storm wrote: > It would be "trivial" to search EMACSPATH to find the proper directory > by looking for the directory which has the fns file. If it cannot find > fns in any directory on the EMACSPATH, maybe it should abort with a > message telling the user to fix it. There's no reason to abort, IMHO: fns is used for load-history, so losing it is not fatal, right? But a warning should be nice in any case, I think.