Ciao Davide, 2014-11-15 11:17 GMT+01:00 Davide G. M. Salvetti <salve+ev...@linux.it>: > Hello developers, > > on rereading AUCTeX manual I find there that the variables: > - TeX-style-path > - TeX-style-global > - TeX-style-local > - TeX-auto-local > "must end with a slash" (each of the items for TeX-style-path). > > Beside the fact that it should probably rather read "must end with a > directory separator", I believe it is not true anymore (I seem to recall > that it had to be true many, many years ago). At least, nowadays my own > variables (or TeX-style-path items) do not end with a slash, but it > looks like AUCTeX does not mind. Moreover, no such prescription is > reported in the lisp doc strings, neither do they are initialized > accordingly.
Indeed default values of some of the said variables don't end with a slash, and no one has complained about that. > Therefore I think we should remove the "must end with a slash" > prescription from the manual. > > Do you agree? Is there anything I am missing? `expand-file-name' is always used to properly handle those directories, so I agree with your proposed change, thank you! Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel