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: Don't concat directories to file names Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wsy6cvip.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5u5cydi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874pl9tbnj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182083798 23163 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 12:36:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 14:36:30 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 1HztzT-0000M2-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HztzT-0004RW-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HztzQ-0004RB-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HztzO-0004Qq-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HztzO-0004Qk-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4] helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HztzM-0000NR-JD; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.143.156]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070617123615.GODC1673.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4F1AE80DD; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:36:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 16 Jun 2007 14\:50\:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:73144 Archived-At: > Because, as Stephen has said, a variable with the same purpose and the > name `user-init-directory' has existed in XEmacs for ten years. > I don't think anyone will care if they are different, but if so, > someone can make an alias. I do care. So do a few others on this list. Brashly ignoring XEmacs prior use is unlikely to help us reduce the unnecessary and destructive tension between the two communities. Stefan