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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: 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 14:28:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftv2ri0s.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jjb4lbivrux.fsf@siscog.pt

"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> I've only now caught up with the discussion of bug#33255.  Are the
> consequences of interpreting the string "c:" on Windows as a relative
> file name understood?
>
> With HOME="z:", it used to be that (expand-file-name "~/blabla")
> returned "z:/blabla" but now it returns
> "z:/source/emacs/emacs/src/z:/blabla", which is not a valid Windows
> pathname.

[snip]

I was about to post a reply but Yuri already answered, so I'll only add
a pointer to an official reference about this topic:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-12 13:28 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
2018-12-12 13:28 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
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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