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* doc/lispref/files.texi (File Name Components): Mention GNU "path" convention

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Stefan Monnier 2021-10-19 17:18:05 -04:00
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@ -2083,6 +2083,9 @@ directory. Therefore, Emacs considers a file name as having two main
parts: the @dfn{directory name} part, and the @dfn{nondirectory} part
(or @dfn{file name within the directory}). Either part may be empty.
Concatenating these two parts reproduces the original file name.
@footnote{Emacs follows the GNU convention to use the term @emph{file name}
instead of the term @emph{pathname}. We use the term @emph{path} only for
search paths, which are lists of directory names.}
On most systems, the directory part is everything up to and including
the last slash (backslash is also allowed in input on MS-DOS or