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 18:35:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83zhtazos0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8336r222jd.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1544632420 16914 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2018 16:33:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yurivkhan@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, joaotavora@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 17:33:35 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 1gX7S3-0004GF-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:33:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46039 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7U9-0002Ok-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47524) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7U2-0002OU-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:35:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7Ty-0001Yc-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7Ty-0001YW-87; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2813 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7Tx-0003Zf-PB; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:35:34 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:29:48 -0800 (PST)) 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:231788 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:29:48 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > 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.