From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:59:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86r6o91zmd.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87k5ty66nq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182351588 18773 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 14:59:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 16:59:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I11el-0003TO-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I11ek-0006vf-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I11eh-0006v0-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I11ef-0006t5-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I11ee-0006si-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.225]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I11ee-00038g-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h26so246528wxd for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:59:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pJpgmiGmH0+ubegx+HLbvzSU504DpU40XQFZ8m8RfVrh4cFn0FODSG80pkw4fjuQdPw50GE/rV7ymYpxcpuWteu1Xxk9poTGOAoACMTv2SlgN8NJceZmZr8DjvHcC0B/0h6UHZyhfwdPNpql0I4ZroZ8DPBdzaE7DkUdEes2uqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ipPxxRVS5rilpW301g19xr6L6hbG1G1fvaSgEX/zJLGg5KV+batFdf1pMu3E7qT/es2eOG0eP3jLqtZP/X0U0GbLKV5cGNc7Nmx72ZbPRKW7jIpRuB6l/FvoBxvyoBBsmC7IxGYpFEMoBBQvnvyq904kHy2W99UN+EsvjYhb2uA= Original-Received: by 10.90.27.13 with SMTP id a13mr451904aga.1182351571132; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:59:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k5ty66nq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73436 Archived-At: On 6/20/07, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Regarding `find-user-data-file', XEmacs distinguishes between > "locating" a file (those functions return file names), and "finding" a > file (those functions switch to a buffer visiting the file). I forget > which your function does.... It's a locate-style function: it returns the path of a conf/initialization/persitent-data file. I don't have a strong feeling about > this, but Emacs makes a similar distinction with "find-library" > vs. "locate-library". Maybe it's worth being consistent? Emacs has `locate-library', `locate-file' and `locate-data-directory'. Perhaps `locate-user-data' would make sense. Juanma