Re: Concatenating of directory strings

Michael Sperber writes: Heiko> Is there a system independend way to concatenate directories in the Heiko> XEmacs (eg: (concat-dirs "/usr/local" "man/man1") => Heiko> "/usr/local/man/man1")? Heiko> I'm asking, because I think, that without such a function code like the Heiko> following (concat dir1 "/" dir2) will break on systems like MSDOS or NT For what's worth, you shouldn't use "/", but the variable directory-sep-char. This will solve 50% of your problems. Michael> The startup code uses a function `paths-construct-path' which does Michael> this kind of thing. Should it be advertised to be callable for Michael> vanilla elisp code? (Until we have proper filename abstractions, Michael> that is.) I think so. It's really something that all package writers would like to have. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19