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Re: Don't concat directories to file names


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: Don't concat directories to file names
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:24:34 +0900

Richard Stallman writes:

 >     What about the variable `user-emacs-directory'? That is surely not the
 >     "best name for it".
 > 
 > It is the best of all the names suggested so far.

*sigh*  For the record, I disgree strongly.  All of the other names
suggested so far are better.  This one has no intuitive meaning to me,
except "the directory where I keep .emacs".  That already has a
reasonably expressive name with a decade of history in XEmacs:
`user-init-directory'.





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