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[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "skip" == skip  <skip at pobox.com> writes:

    >> -  (Help-find-file (locate-data-file "NEWS")))
    >> +  (Help-find-file (expand-file-name "NEWS" data-directory)))

    Hrvoje> That seems a better fix.

    Stephen> +1

    skip> If it's ambiguous like this is there any reason to keep
    skip> locate-data-file?

Sure.  Same reasons as you keep any implicit path-searching around:
you don't necessarily know that the file is there, or where it is, but
the name is sufficiently likely to identify it uniquely.


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