From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another word for "path"? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:23:14 GMT Organization: Genuity, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84hec65ylb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87y95ggaaw.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043175399 27255 80.91.224.249 (21 Jan 2003 18:56:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b3Ze-00075T-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:56:38 +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 18b3Tr-0000bt-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:50:39 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: /bdhN4s19aOLrRPWUZFQvOiy0l8hAgS5/Okl27/d3y8CsehYC3kUcgJXcmKx/Ip1MWmO8EDxywHM!uGGvk6zJkbogcJ6cd/hKzDQ13QqWIf+fFYEowae1XDV8ld3LtL1spVYZQo/amjK64/I9Z2etQZHK!07wp0d9ZakIfMg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:23:14 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109313 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5838 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5838 In article <84u1g2cu7k.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, Kai Großjohann wrote: >Pascal Bourguignon writes: > >> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: >> >>> A Tramp filename consists of the following parts: >>> >>> - a method specification >>> - a user name >>> - a host name >>> - and a path specifying the file on the remote host >>> >>> Now the GNU coding standards say that the word "path" is defined as a >>> list of directories, such as those found in $PATH and $MANPATH. >> >> Whatever... Where have you seen 'path' defined this way? > >GNU coding standards. Since Tramp is a GNU program (or part of it, >anyway), it's a good idea to adhere to this document :-) Unix has always referred to something like /foo/bar/baz as a pathname. I've always understood a list of directories like in $PATH to be called a "search path", to distinguish it from a "file path". -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.