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From: "Jochen Küpper" <jochen-+It19tn3Rl9sbm7dSapR3bNAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: nnir.el?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:16:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ed60u40iy.fsf@fhi-berlin.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9fz5r1gbo.fsf-WZbs9ZYJ0ya4nSHvGpykACzlmkwuQ7VwhC4ANOJQIlc@public.gmane.org> (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:23 +0200")

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:51:23 +0200 Reiner Steib wrote:

Reiner> One thing that has bitten me was that it requires expanded
Reiner> file names which makes it harder when using the same
Reiner> configuration on different accounts (~/Mail may expand to
Reiner> different values).

Isn't (expand-file-name "~/Mail") enough?

,----[ C-h f expand-file-name RET ]
| expand-file-name is a built-in function.
| (expand-file-name NAME &optional DEFAULT-DIRECTORY)
| 
| Convert filename NAME to absolute, and canonicalize it.
| Second arg DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is directory to start with if NAME is relative
|  (does not start with slash); if DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is nil or missing,
| the current buffer's value of default-directory is used.
| File name components that are `.' are removed, and 
| so are file name components followed by `..', along with the `..' itself;
| note that these simplifications are done without checking the resulting
| file names in the file system.
| An initial `~/' expands to your home directory.
| An initial `~USER/' expands to USER's home directory.
| See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'.
`----

Greetings,
Jochen
-- 
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit                http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de
    Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité                GnuPG key: CC1B0B4D
        (Part 3 you find in my messages before fall 2003.)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-10 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09 15:05 nnir.el? Simon Josefsson
2004-09-09 16:49 ` nnir.el? Christoph Conrad
2004-09-09 17:08   ` nnir.el? David S Goldberg
2004-09-09 19:47     ` nnir.el? Christoph Conrad
2004-09-09 17:51 ` nnir.el? Reiner Steib
2004-09-09 19:45   ` nnir.el? Christoph Conrad
     [not found]   ` <v9fz5r1gbo.fsf-WZbs9ZYJ0ya4nSHvGpykACzlmkwuQ7VwhC4ANOJQIlc@public.gmane.org>
2004-09-10 15:16     ` Jochen Küpper [this message]
2004-09-11 17:24   ` nnir.el? Simon Josefsson
2004-09-11 18:16     ` nnir.el? Josh
2004-10-23 20:54   ` nnir.el? Kai Grossjohann

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