From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:21:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0706150421ra431c9eofc0c6b11dbe066c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On 6/15/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
> XEmacs doesn't enforce it (we can't without imposing a gratuitous
> incompatibility, since until now Emacs hasn't really had the concept),
Aha.
> but the variable `user-init-directory' is available to any library
> that wants an Emacs-specific place to put things. This is normally
> initialized to "~/.xemacs" by startup.el.
Then the recently introduced `user-emacs-directory' should be renamed
to `user-init-directory', or aliased, I think (but it doesn't make
much sense to alias a just created var). The variable currently must
end with a directory separator, but that could be fixed.
But all in all, what I'm interested is having a public function so
modules that currently do
(defvar my-module-setup-file "~/.my-module-data")
or
(defvar my-module-setup-file
(cond ((file-exists-p "~/.my-module-data") "~/.my-module-data")
((file-directory-p "~/.emacs.d/" "~/.emacs.d/my-module-setup"))
(t ...)))
can be easily transformed to
(defvar my-module-setup-file
(user-emacs-file "my-module-data" ; back-compatible
"my-module-setup" ; optional, default to above
))
i.e. (it's a reworked version):
(defun user-emacs-file (name &optional new-name)
"Convert NAME to an absolute per-user Emacs-specific path.
If \"~/NAME\" exists, or `user-emacs-directory' is nil, return \"~/NAME\".
Else, return \"`user-emacs-directory'/NEW-NAME\", or /NAME if NEW-NAME is nil."
(convert-standard-filename
(let ((at-home (expand-file-name name (concat "~" init-file-user))))
(if (or (file-readable-p at-home)
(null user-emacs-directory))
at-home
(or (file-accessible-directory-p (directory-file-name
user-emacs-directory))
(progn (make-directory user-emacs-directory) t) ;; don't
catch errors
(expand-file-name (or new-name name) user-emacs-directory))))))
That function makes use of `user-emacs-directory' (that'd be
`user-init-directory', in XEmacs); uses `convert-standard-filename'
and, as requested, creates the ~/.emacs.d (~/.xemacs) directory on the
fly.
People wanting to use the same setup files in X?Emacs will have to
make user-(emacs|init)-directory point to the right place, or perhaps
set it to nil (and then `user-emacs-file' defers to ~/ and does not
try to create any dir).
WDYT?
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-13 16:22 Don't concat directories to file names Richard Stallman
2007-06-14 15:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 17:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-14 21:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 1:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 9:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 10:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 11:21 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2007-06-15 14:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 16:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 18:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-15 16:39 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-15 16:41 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 0:38 ` Miles Bader
2007-06-16 0:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-16 3:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-15 22:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 23:25 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 19:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 20:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-17 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-18 7:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-18 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-20 13:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-20 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-20 14:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-20 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 8:08 ` Kai Grossjohann
2007-06-21 8:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 1:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 7:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-22 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-25 9:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 14:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 15:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:23 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 18:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-26 0:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-25 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-25 18:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-25 19:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-06-25 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 20:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-25 20:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-25 15:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-21 2:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-21 8:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-21 8:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-21 8:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-16 5:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-06-16 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-15 16:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:51 ` Tom Tromey
2007-06-14 21:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 21:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-14 21:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-15 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-15 7:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-14 19:40 ` Tom Tromey
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