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changeset 37064:428092eb22d4
Document that directory-sep-char is deprecated.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:23:40 +0000 |
| parents | 98458fd6ac46 |
| children | 9a4674999109 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Thu Mar 29 15:05:05 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Thu Mar 29 15:23:40 2001 +0000 @@ -2218,6 +2218,17 @@ 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. + * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.)