# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 985946536 0 # Node ID 8b914cd4ae0c1ba71ddd51db5eb19674f8613a8f # Parent ec5579aad1bbc2836e70fdd42f2a7bbc503c167a Fix the wording about directory-sep-char deprecation. diff -r ec5579aad1bb -r 8b914cd4ae0c etc/NEWS --- a/etc/NEWS Fri Mar 30 09:55:24 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Mar 30 10:02:16 2001 +0000 @@ -2218,16 +2218,16 @@ encoding using Emacs 20 with additional private charsets defined will probably not be read correctly by Emacs 21. -** Not really a change (yet), but a projected one that of which you -should be aware of: The variable `directory-sep-char' is deprecated, -and should not be used. It was always ignored on GNU/Linux and Unix -systems and on MS-DOS, but the MS-Windows port tried to support it by -adapting the behavior of certain primitives to the value of this -variable. It turned out that such support cannot be reliable, so it -was decided to remove this variable in the near future. Lisp programs -are well advised not to set it to anything but '/', because any -different value will not have any effect when support for this -variable is removed. +** The variable `directory-sep-char' is slated for removal. +Not really a change (yet), but a projected one that you should be +aware of: The variable `directory-sep-char' is deprecated, and should +not be used. It was always ignored on GNU/Linux and Unix systems and +on MS-DOS, but the MS-Windows port tried to support it by adapting the +behavior of certain primitives to the value of this variable. It +turned out that such support cannot be reliable, so it was decided to +remove this variable in the near future. Lisp programs are well +advised not to set it to anything but '/', because any different value +will not have any effect when support for this variable is removed. * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual,