From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: <8336r222jd.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544628063 27092 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2018 15:21:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 16:20:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6Jm-0006ts-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:20:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6Ls-000830-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6LD-00082j-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6LD-0007bl-12 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6L7-0007Xf-7N; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:22:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2256 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6L6-0007I2-PL; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:22:21 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:19:55 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231783 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:19:55 +0700 > Cc: Emacs developers , Paul Eggert , > Eli Zaretskii > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:43 PM João Távora 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.