emacs-pretest-bug
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

unclear documentation for directory-sep-char


From: David Kastrup
Subject: unclear documentation for directory-sep-char
Date: 08 Jan 2003 19:37:57 +0100

This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
not to your local site managers!
Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the address@hidden mailing list.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

The documentation for directory-sep-char states:

    directory-sep-char's value is 47

    This variable is obsolete since 21.1;
    do not use it.

    Directory separator character for built-in functions that return
    file names.  The value should be either ?/ or ?\ (any other value
    is treated as ?\).  This variable affects the built-in functions
    only on Windows, on other platforms, it is initialized so that
    Lisp code can find out what the normal separator is.

This sounds as if it were obsolete usage to _write_ anything into
this variable, but reading from it should be fine.  In that case the
variable is not obsolete.  If it is supposed to be obsolete, however,
there should be mentioned a way to get at the desired information by
other means.

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-01-06 on lola.goethe.zz
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' 
'INSTALL_INFO=/sbin/install-info''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]