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 17:20:34 +0200 Message-ID: <834lbi22m5.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544627961 19569 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2018 15:19:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:19:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_T=E1vora?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 16:19:17 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 1gX6I7-0004xG-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:19:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6KE-0007RG-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6Jc-0007R8-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6Jb-0006VB-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:20:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6JU-0006QQ-Vh; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:20:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2152 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6JU-00079v-1O; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:20:40 -0500 In-reply-to: (joaotavora@gmail.com) 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:231782 Archived-At: > From: "João Távora" > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:42:30 +0000 > > 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. That's a regression that should be fixed. > All of this can be fixed by me by setting HOME to "z:/", but > unfortunately I am breaking other applications that expected it > slash-less. Those other applications have a bug as well, so I urge you to fix that or find some fixed version of them. > An alternative would be: I see no reason for alternatives, we just need to fix the regression.