From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: 15417@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15417: (compile "cd /u*r && ... cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:45:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l20hl7$5me$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd2nwx26q.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
On 9/25/13 11:06 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Why is this a bug? i.e. is there a /u*r directory, and do its permissions
>
> Yes, in the shell (which is normally what runs this command), "cd /u*r"
> will probably succeed by expanding "/u*r" to "/usr".
> But the hack I added to "M-x compile" which tries to recognize a leading
> "cd<blabla>" gets in the way.
Ah, I see.
Seems like after extracting the <blabla> arg and substituting the values
of any referenced environment variables (already implemented by the
current hack), you could pass the result to file-expand-wildcards. Then
check that there is only a single directory in the result, and pass that
directory to `cd'.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 10:55 bug#15417: (compile "cd /u*r && ... cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable jidanni
2013-09-25 5:44 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-09-25 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26 5:45 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2013-09-26 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-02 13:41 ` Kevin Rodgers
2013-10-02 23:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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