GNU bug report logs - #16419
24.3.50; eww-download-path should be renamed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:11:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16419 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16419: 24.3.50; eww-download-path should be renamed
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 05:53:21 +0200

> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:10:15 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
> 
> GNU Coding Standards[fn:1] says:
> 
>     Please do not use the term “pathname” that is used in Unix
>     documentation; use “file name” (two words) instead. We use the term
>     “path” only for search paths, which are lists of directory names.
> 
> Should this variable be renamed?

Yes, please.  Something like eww-download-directory should be good.

Thanks.
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