Re: Don't concat directories to file names

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Juanma Barranquero writes:

 > > The trick of doing
 > >
 > > (defun user-init-directory ()

 > Yes, but that adds API complexity.

Sure.  Since as Stefan points out it should be used in the context of
expand-file-name anyway, this can't really help, so I withdraw the
suggestion.

 > > How does "user-configuration-file" or
 > > "find-user-configuration-file" sound?  (Of course "configuration"
 > > could be shortened to "config".)
 > 
 > Good, I like `user-config-file' or `find-user-config-file'. Stefan has
 > proposed `user-init-file', but I don't like it because it seems
 > related to .emacs/init.el (as the variable of the same name is).

I agree.  I think the fact that there is a variable of that name with
a quite distinct meaning would be too confusing.