From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 900276502f..: Paul Eggert 2018-11-13 Act like POSIX sh if $HOME is relative
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:22:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8336r222jd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8Uv=xRGQZzgy9oqBUfC2HR0w5Dpf-Wdbxv01d8QbF+Q5w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yuri Khan on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:19:55 +0700)
> From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:19:55 +0700
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:43 PM João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > With HOME="z:", it used to be that (expand-file-name "~/blabla")
> > returned "z:/blabla" but now it returns
> > "z:/source/emacs/emacs/src/z:/blabla", which is not a valid Windows
> > pathname.
>
> As a former Windows user, I’d say both are wrong.
>
> Setting HOME="z:" says “Whichever is the current directory on drive Z
Emacs doesn't support drive-relative file names on Windows. It never
did. It always interpreted "x:" as the root directory on drive x.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-12 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-12 12:42 900276502f..: Paul Eggert 2018-11-13 Act like POSIX sh if $HOME is relative João Távora
2018-12-12 13:19 ` Yuri Khan
2018-12-12 14:54 ` João Távora
2018-12-12 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-12-12 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2018-12-12 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 13:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-12 14:53 ` João Távora
2018-12-12 15:14 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-12 15:28 ` João Távora
2018-12-12 16:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-12 17:19 ` João Távora
2018-12-12 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-12 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:30 ` João Távora
2018-12-12 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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