Re: Another word for "path"?

[Rodney Sparapani]

Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Hm?  There are two kinds of Tramp filenames, multi-hop names and
> normal names.  Normal names look like this:
>
>    /method:user@host:/path/to/file
>
> Multi-hop names look like this (using "[...]" to indicate that I've
> left out something):
>
>    /multi:m1:u1@h1:m2:u2@h2:[...]:mN:uN@hN:/path/to/file
>
> In both cases, I'm looking for a word that describes "/path/to/file".
>
> So if a hostname is mentioned in "/path/to/file", it will not be
> interpreted specially.
>
> It *is* somewhat confusing that the "localname" names a file on a
> remote host, but that just depends on the way you look at it...
>  
I agree that "localname" is confusing.  It seems to me that 
"/path/to/file" is what the emacs
documentation calls "directory", i.e. "directory/file".  Also, the 
documentation mentions
"absolute path name" which would start with either / or ~.  I might 
further qualify it by
"absolute/relative path name" when I'm referring to the concept of 
"directory/file".  As a
final thought, I have also struggled with the GNU Emacs/elisp Coding 
Standards and I think
it would be helpful if they addressed both "path" and "file name" with 
examples that
demonstrate what the standards actually want (perhaps this will do :o).

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Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
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