From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 767@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:59:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsksbzq2z.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C42E3D.3000709@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:40:45 +0200")
> I never noticed that it must end with a slash and in many circumstances
> it works without it.
I know it does in many cases, but as you've found out it doesn't
always work.
> I suggested that this should be fixed somewhere in start-process and I
> think Chong added something along those lines.
I saw that yes. And I think that given the docstring, the patch should
not let-bind default-directory but just setq it (or do nothing at all).
> (Making Emacs actually require the ending slash seems is not very
> backwards compatible.)
AFAIK it's been that way for ever, so backward compatibility is not
really relevant.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-07 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-08-23 13:05 ` bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 19:20 ` bug#767: marked as done (23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory) Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-09-07 19:34 ` bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 19:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-09-07 20:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-07 23:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-26 22:18 Chong Yidong
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