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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only direct
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names |
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Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:20:34 +0200 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:24:19 +0100
>
> > 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 likely does on Windows/MSDOS since C:filename and C:\filename mean
> entirely different things.
You are right in general. However, in Emacs, C:foo and C:/foo (and
C:\foo) mean the same thing, at least on MS-Windows. We don't support
the so-called "drive-relative" file names. (Not that I think this
factoid matters for the purposes of this discussion; I just wanted to
refute a misconception.)
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- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, David Kastrup, 2015/10/29
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Stefan Monnier, 2015/10/29
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Random832, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Random832, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2015/10/29
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/28
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