From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (file-exists-p "") --> t?? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:12:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20090427.141242.873398455467769355.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240835076 18839 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2009 12:24:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 14:24:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LyPiY-0007H4-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyPiX-0003uW-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyPhb-0003j0-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyPhW-0003hN-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50532 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyPhW-0003hE-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.140]:63500) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LyPhV-00088E-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 70630 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2009 12:12:42 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Apr 2009 12:12:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.50 on Emacs 23.0.60 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110488 Archived-At: + "Alfred M. Szmidt" : > Is it intended that file-exists-p returns t for the empty string? I don't know if it is intended or not, but it does make some sort of sense: Try (find-file "") to see for yourself what you get. - Harald