From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= 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 17:55:12 +0100 Message-ID: <8736r2r8gf.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87ftv2ri0s.fsf@telefonica.net> <877egerd4e.fsf@telefonica.net> 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 1544633622 16310 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2018 16:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:53:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.90 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 17:53:37 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 1gX7lR-00046D-7l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:53:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7nX-0007ek-AZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7nP-0007dq-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7nM-0004K9-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:55:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33455 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7nM-0003pG-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:55:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gX7kx-0003R0-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:53:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:cB560HaUgnCLqM2LCfOpeDy2sI0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:231790 Archived-At: João Távora writes: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:15 PM Óscar Fuentes wrote: > >> >> >> You are asking for being bug-compatible with previous Emacs because you >> must cope with bugs on other applications :-) > > > Yes, if you will. That is what the world is like. Yes, sadly :-) >> Do you think that this >> problem is frequent enough? > > > Every time I start Emacs, or everytime someone in my $DAYJOB starts Emacs > after upgrading to Emacs 27. Frequent enough? I was asking about an heuristic to estimate the hypothetical fraction of affected users. Something like "I know two guys on the Internet with the same problem." >> What applications are those that don't admit >> an slash after the volume letter in HOME? >> > > 30-year+ old, big bad misbehaving Lisp-based applications. Kinda like > Emacs, I suppose :-) Let me guess: those applications share the same runtime and/or libraries. FWIW, I'm not opposed to keeping Emacs bug-compatible on this case. (As if my opinion had some value :-)