Re: Slash at the end of directory (was Re: oddity with TeX-style-private ?)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "IK" == Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> writes:

>>>>>> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>>>> "CB" == Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
CB> However, the default setting for this variable, given in
CB> 'tex-site.el' is "/usr/local/var/auctex", which does not end in '/'.
 
Uwe> Right, this also crossed my mind and I tried it out.
Uwe> The '/' did not make any difference. I was also wondering.

Tassilo> Probably a relict of ancient times where paths were build using
Tassilo> `concat' rather than `expand-file-name' and friends, I don't
Tassilo> know...

> The commit [1] removed most of the occurences of "Must end with a
> directory separator." The one discussed here must be just a remnant of
> them. I think that statement can be deleted safely.

> According to the words from David in [2], it seems that the removal was
> done for the sake of xemacs.

Right. I recall the transition time, when I was still switching between
the two, I found it confusing that one of them was rather nitpicking
while the other was more, let us say, generous.

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