GNU bug report logs - #7516
[PATCH] lisp/startup.el (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path) Exclude more VCS dirs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:00:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Found in version 23.2+1-5.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 7516 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>
Subject: bug#7516: [PATCH] lisp/startup.el (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path) Exclude more VCS dirs
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:34:09 -0500

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Wouldn't it make more sense to skip anything that starts with a dot?

The very next line does:

(string-match "\\`[[:alnum:]]" file)

so this change seems unnecessary (the function is documented to behave
in this way). Empirically, .svn etc directories are already skipped,
so I don't see any point to this patch.
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