Re: load-path contains directories or directory names?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> As part of the file completion code I'm working on, I need to build an
> absolute file name from a directory and a non-directory. That's either:
>
> (concat dir name)
>
> or
>
> (concat dir "/" name)

I try to avoid string operations on file names.

In the above case, using

  (expand-file-name name dir)

seems cleaner to me.  And for DIR (docstring) even "both the
directory name and a directory’s file name are accepted".


Michael.