From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x locate fails with no such directory /
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:04:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405-Thu07Aug2003190429+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16177.21744.958000.999185@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (message from Robert Mecklenburg on Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:20:16 -0600)
> From: Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen@cimsoft.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:20:16 -0600
>
> EZ> Why is "/" wrong for NTEmacs? It means the root directory on the
> EZ> current drive.
>
> Okay, I agree with your statement. Nevertheless I get an emacs error
> (and backtrace) with "/" and not with "C:/". I don't know why.
I don't know either. This snippet from your backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or directory" "/")
call-process("locate" nil t nil "cimsoft/Makefile")
doesn't make sense to me: it seems to suggest that Emacs cannot chdir
to the root of the current drive. Does "M-x cd RET / RET" also fail
on that drive if you type it inside an Emacs session?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-07 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-06 14:40 M-x locate fails with no such directory / Robert Mecklenburg
2003-08-06 15:33 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-06 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-06 19:20 ` Robert Mecklenburg
2003-08-07 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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