RE: Another word for "path"?

[Bingham, Jay]

Take a look at the Foldoc entry 
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?pathname
This may help solve your dilemma.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Bockgård [mailto:bojohan@helm.dd.chalmers.se] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:12 PM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another word for "path"?

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > A Tramp filename consists of the following parts:
> > 
> >   - a method specification
> >   - a user name
> >   - a host name
> >   - and a path specifying the file on the remote host
> > 
> > Now the GNU coding standards say that the word "path" is defined as a
> > list of directories, such as those found in $PATH and $MANPATH.
> 
> Whatever... Where have you seen 'path' defined this way?
[...]
> Let's stop now with the novlang, and name your path 'path'!

Straight from the horse's mouth:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-01/msg00320.html

/Johan
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