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Re: Don't concat directories to file names
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Don't concat directories to file names |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:00:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> At least I didn't find difficult to remember that frames are windows
>> and windows are panes (and yeah, I know, Emacs Was There First :)
>>
>> locate-user-emacs-file, then, as ugly as it is.
>
>>From functions like file-name-as-directory and directory-file-name one
> could possibly derive locate-user-emacs-file-name. However, I find
> that this sounds illogical since the _name_ is not what is _located_.
>
> So locate-*-file seems more appropriate.
Actually, in correspondence with `make-temp-name', the function might
be named `make-user-file-name'. The disadvantage is that `make'
carries with it the slight connotation that the file and/or name will
be a new one. That would be somewhat alleviated by using
`get-user-file-name' (get is used in a similar function with buffers).
I think I should stop now before someone shoots me.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, (continued)
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/20
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Kai Grossjohann, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25