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bug#21962: 25.0.50; doc of `normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path'
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#21962: 25.0.50; doc of `normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path' |
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Sun, 01 May 2016 00:26:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Looking at the code, it seems that this function does not add only
> subdirectories of the current `default-directory'. It seems to add all
> descendant directories of `default-directory'.
>
> A subdirectory is a child, not a grandchild etc. I believe that is the
> usual terminology. It is, in any case, the terminology that Emacs uses
> in, for example Dired. It is also why the doc uses language such as
> "with subdirectories handled recursively" to distinguish the practice of
> handling not only the subdirectories of a directory, but their
> subdirectories, and so on, recursively.
>
> So IIUC what the function does, IMO its description is incorrect. Or at
> best it is misleading, if you claim that "subdirectory" means any
> descendant directory. Please change the doc to make clear just what
> directories are added to `load-path'.
I've now done so.
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