From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87bprxuy99.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237489750 20751 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 19:09:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xah@xahlee.org, Mike Mattie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 20:10:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkNd3-0005Od-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:10:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkNbg-00037B-Iy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkNbB-0002u7-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:08:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkNb6-0002si-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57721 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkNb6-0002sc-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr ([150.140.141.169]:55084) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkNb6-0000oy-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08185EB5737; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:07 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE60E45088; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:06 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ahZ5-SP713Bt; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:06 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl38-146.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.165.146]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F254503F; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:06 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2JJ852I016753; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2JJ825N016752; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:02 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (berkeley-unix) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109702 Archived-At: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:26 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Having said that, I see that a double slash in find-file's prompt starts >> over from the filesystem root. That's slightly annoying when trying to >> open a filename with double slashes, but it's also helpful when one >> really *wants* to start over from the root of the filesystem :/ > > In normal Unix file systems, there cannot be a "filename with double > slashes". Emacs is already careful to preserve double slashes in the > few known cases where they can appear (mostly in > "///"), so if you find more such cases, please report > them here so we can try and teach Emacs about them. I will, thanks :)