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| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2021-10-19 17:18:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 2021-10-19 17:18:05 -0400 |
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* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Name Components): Mention GNU "path" convention
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index 1e05153f3c0..59e18b32c2e 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -2083,6 +2083,9 @@ directory. Therefore, Emacs considers a file name as having two main parts: the @dfn{directory name} part, and the @dfn{nondirectory} part (or @dfn{file name within the directory}). Either part may be empty. Concatenating these two parts reproduces the original file name. +@footnote{Emacs follows the GNU convention to use the term @emph{file name} +instead of the term @emph{pathname}. We use the term @emph{path} only for +search paths, which are lists of directory names.} On most systems, the directory part is everything up to and including the last slash (backslash is also allowed in input on MS-DOS or |