Re: Files that begin with a period

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:19, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm okay with this change, but I think we shouldn't rename the
> constant.  There's no need to, really, and doing so introduces
> gratuitous back-compatibility problems.

I'm quite agnostic about the names, but a *great* deal of the thread
was choosing appropriate ones, and XEmacs compatibility and prior art
were involved. Stephen J. Turnbull participated in the discussion and
was willing to add the function to XEmacs, IIRC.

  Juanma