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From: "R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: "16861@debbugs.gnu.org" <16861@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:39:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB901079-4063-4509-8FD7-7B29A22DD628@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmwqgkdfiq.fsf@hawking.suse.de>

On Feb 24, 2014, at 4:30, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Enter eshell, change to / and then cd to ".." and eshell/pwd reports
>> "/.." instead of the canonical "/":
> 
> (expand-file-name ".." "/") -> "/.."
> 
> See its doc string.

Ok -- I hadn't run across file systems with a 'superroot' before (cf. Emacs Manual 25.8.4). I'll special case it in my Eshell prompt function then. 

Thanks for the quick reply,

Michael





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-24 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24  3:30 bug#16861: 24.3; Eshell /.. eshell/pwd Bug R. Michael Weylandt
2014-02-24  9:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-24 10:13   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-02-24 10:23     ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-24 10:29       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-02-24 10:34         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-02-24 11:13           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-02-24 15:39   ` R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> [this message]
2014-03-03  6:57     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-02-05 22:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-06 16:30   ` Michael Weylandt

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