From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: strange behaviour of "//" in open file names Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:09:43 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87bqxpal9k.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138915258 20970 80.91.229.2 (2 Feb 2006 21:20:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 22:20:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4lsR-0003CJ-MY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:20:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4lvR-0000Fz-Ms for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kps-0000DO-Pt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kpr-0000D3-V9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kpr-0000Cz-O9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F4kok-0005kD-H2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F4kmD-0006Dq-IW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:09:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:09:57 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:09:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87bqxpal9k.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de> X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:14772 Archived-At: Torsten Bronger wrote: > When I open a file with C-x C-f I have to enter its name in the > minibuffer. If its name contains double slashs "//", everything > before them is printed in grey (my global standard colour is orange). That is not a bug. File names cannot contain consecutive directory separators. See the Minibuffer File node of the Emacs manual and the doc string for file-name-shadow-mode. (BTW, you're using Emacs 22, so M-x report-emacs-bug would have sent your report to the correct mailing list.) > Additionally, a C-a doesn't go to the first character in the file path > but to the most recent double slash (if the cursor was behind it). That may be a bug... -- Kevin Rodgers