Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37077:8b914cd4ae0c
Fix the wording about directory-sep-char deprecation.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:02:16 +0000 |
| parents | ec5579aad1bb |
| children | 85d54366b2b1 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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,