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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master e315544: ; * src/fileio.c (Fdirectory_append): Doc fix.
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:51:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r7n1r6a.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7gjo8sh.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:39:58 +0200")

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> FTR, I believe COMPONENTS might also contain nil elements, which should
> be ignored.

I'm not sure I follow.  You want to extend the interface to allow nil
elements?  I'm not sure that would be very useful?

> Furthermore, we have
>
> (directory-append "foo/" "/bar") => "foo//bar"
>
> I would expect "foo/bar", meaning that all leading slashes in COMPONENTS
> are removed.

Well, I think that's over into DWIM-land again (which is what
expand-file-name does, and this function deliberately doesn't do).

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-24 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210724171858.1726.43078@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20210724171900.4A26D20D0A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-07-24 18:39   ` master e315544: ; * src/fileio.c (Fdirectory_append): Doc fix Michael Albinus
2021-07-24 18:51     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-24 19:04       ` Michael Albinus
2021-07-25  5:19         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-25  5:27           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-07-25  6:54             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-25 10:01               ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-07-25 10:23                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-25 11:50                 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-07-25 13:05                   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-07-28 15:39                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-28 17:28                       ` Michael Albinus
2021-07-30 11:36                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-25  7:59           ` Michael Albinus
2021-07-28 15:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-28 17:13               ` Michael Albinus

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