From 7cd5f1e7eef61f436b6abd00138d4868a1bf1960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:23:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that directory-sep-char is deprecated. --- etc/NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 39fe6141416..71cb0f0d1b2 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -2218,6 +2218,17 @@ 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. + * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) -- 2.39.2