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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: David Biesack <David.Biesack@sas.com>
Cc: 4902@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4902: 23.1; directory-abbrev-alist is not handled early enough
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:35:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmy2uw4ur.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BBA15439DC467648BBAB71E6BA4D990038FDDAA7EA@MERCMBX12.na.sas.com> (David Biesack's message of "Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:06 -0500")

> (setq directory-abbrev-alist '(("^/mount/" . "//uncpath/mount/")))

> Even after setting this value, it is not honored on Windows.
> Lower level functions appear to ignore directory-abbrev-alist,
> so find-file and find-file-noselect etc. end up with "true" filenames that
> contain drive letters:

> (file-truename "/mount/somefile.x")
> => "c:/mount/somefile.x"

file-truename does not use directory-abbrev-alist.
Only abbreviate-file-name does.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-10 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 17:54 bug#4902: 23.1; directory-abbrev-alist is not handled early enough David Biesack
2009-11-10 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-10 19:52   ` David J. Biesack
2009-11-10 21:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10 21:29       ` David J. Biesack
2009-11-11  4:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-11 12:47           ` David J. Biesack
2009-11-11 18:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-11 20:57               ` David J. Biesack
2009-11-11 14:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-11 19:41           ` David J. Biesack
2019-11-02  5:21           ` Stefan Kangas

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