From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:02:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Fix the wording about directory-sep-char deprecation. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.101~101 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98384b7bf472c67c09afe0fb55275c96ebd37605;p=emacs.git Fix the wording about directory-sep-char deprecation. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 71cb0f0d1b2..7f6116cbbc4 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -2218,16 +2218,16 @@ the emacs-mule encoding. Also, files stored in the emacs-mule 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,