From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: yurivkhan@gmail.com, 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 18:35:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhtazos0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d551b8e0-63b9-4510-879b-489817ef33be@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:29:48 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:29:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > > 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.
>
> Whatever gets decided wrt this bug report, please ensure
> that the Emacs docs make clear what the behavior is.
>
> In particular, let's tell users that "Emacs doesn't
> support drive-relative file names on Windows." So,
> e.g., it interprets "x:" as the root directory on
> drive x.
We didn't explain this subtlety before, and I don't see why explain it
now. It's a corner use case (I'd actually consider it a bug in the
user configuration). Since there's no change in behavior here, we
don't need to change anything in the documentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-12 16:35 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
2018-12-12 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2018-12-12 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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