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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only direct


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:24:19 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> That term was defined in the manual for many years to mean the version
>> with the trailing slash.
>
> I'd be interested to know what percentage of people on this list knew
> that "directory name" in Emacs meant strictly "something with a trailing
> slash".

It doesn't on VMS.  Which is one the salient points.

It likely does on Windows/MSDOS since C:filename and C:\filename mean
entirely different things.

-- 
David Kastrup



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