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


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:34:27 -0400

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  > > I think the intent of the existing documentation is that a so-called
  > > "directory name" is the one that may be concatenated to a filename to
  > > form a path.

In GNU, we reserve the term "path" for a list of directories to
search.  We use the term "file name" to refer to a name that can be
used to open a file.  This eliminates an illogical ambiguity in Unix
terminology.

Normally you can concatenate a directory name with a relative file name
to get an absolute file name that starts from that directory.
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