From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Files that begin with a period Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224479672 4623 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 05:14:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 07:15:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KrY1o-0003QF-4X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:09:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrY0j-00068V-1b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrY0a-00065s-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KrY0Z-00065D-1e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59101 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KrY0Y-000658-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:50396 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KrY0X-00085h-Fl; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:45 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AigFAKHN+khFxLrB/2dsb2JhbACBcr1Jg2yBCg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,445,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="28573939" Original-Received: from 69-196-186-193.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.186.193]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 19 Oct 2008 09:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 894397F20; Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:29:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:104634 Archived-At: > I installed today in several Lisp files, including in the `lisp/org' > directory, changes that run file names which supply values to > defcustom's through `convert-standard-filename'. This is for when > Emacs runs on 8+3 (a.k.a. DOS) filesystems that do not allow file > names with a leading period. (On modern filesystems, > `convert-standard-filename' leaves the file name intact.) It would probably be good to try and use user-emacs-directory for those file names. Stefan