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Re: [XWEM]: Re: Adding things to xwem-icons-alist


From: Zajcev Evgeny
Subject: Re: [XWEM]: Re: Adding things to xwem-icons-alist
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:20:49 +0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, berkeley-unix)

Zajcev Evgeny <address@hidden> writes:

> Steve Youngs <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * Zajcev Evgeny <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>   >> How can I tell it that the icon file is in a different directory?
>>
>>   > Use absolute path, for example
>>
>>   >   (add-to-list 'xwem-icons-alist
>>   >      (cons ["Links.*" ".*" ".*"] (expand-file-name "links.xpm" 
>> "/dir/to/icons")))
>>
>> No.
>>
>> The truth of the matter is that it is impossible to specify an icon
>> file that is outside of `xwem-icons-dir'.  Why?  Because it was
>> hard-coded in xwem-icons.el.  The fix?  Already applied to the XEmacs
>> CVS repo. :-)
>

Yes, i was misunderstanding, i thought we've got all concats
eliminated.  So the only thing is needed is to replace `concat' with
`expand-file-name'

> The thing is that `expand-file-name' expands only relative paths, for
> example:
>
>     (expand-file-name "icon.xpm" xwem-icons-dir)
>     =>
>     "/home/lg/.xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/xwem/icon.xpm"
>
> but
>
>     (expand-file-name "/absolute/path/to/icon.xpm" xwem-icons-dir)
>     =>
>     "/absolute/path/to/icon.xpm"
>

-- 
lg




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