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Re: load-path contains directories or directory names?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: load-path contains directories or directory names?
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:08:38 +0200

> From: "John Wiegley" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:02:32 -0700
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> (info "(elisp) Directory Names" says to use:
> >> 
> >> (concat DIRNAME RELFILE)
> 
> > No, it says you CAN use that.
> 
> Eli, should we remove that mention in the elisp docs, to avoid confusion?
> 
> Telling people they could use `concat' is something (a) an experienced Lisper
> would already know, and (b) an inexperienced Lisper shouldn't consider as a
> reasonable alternative to `expand-file-name'.

IMO, either remove and replace with 'expand-file-name', or describe
both with a preference to 'expand-file-name'.



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