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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only direct
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names |
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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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