Re: on specifying the C source code directory

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-02, at 01:17, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Daniel Bastos <dbastos@toledo.com> writes:
>
>> (setq find-function-C-source-directory
>> (file-name-as-directory "path/to/my/emacs/src"))
>
> `file-name-as-directory' just adds a trail slash so
> that can be added manually.

As the docstring says, in Unix this is so.  I don't know about other
systems.

> Also, it doesn't seem to be necessary! I never thought
> about it, but I see now that I have it like this - no
> slash - and it has always worked just the same:
>
>     (defvar find-function-C-source-directory)
>     (setq find-function-C-source-directory "~/.emacs.d/emacs-24.1/src")

Out of curiosity: why defvar?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University