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: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:04:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87k56i980l.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87prgdsigb.fsf@xemacs.org> <87tz5p5xyo.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87ocvwsq0z.fsf@xemacs.org> <87iqm4s0p3.fsf@xemacs.org> <871vsr3n1s.fsf@kobe.laptop> <871vsrfptu.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237651771 22137 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2009 16:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xah@xahlee.org, Mike Mattie , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 21 17:10:48 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 1Ll3mY-0002e2-RS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:10:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll3lC-0000YI-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:09:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll3hE-00072I-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll3h5-000702-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50114 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ll3h5-0006zx-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr ([150.140.141.169]:46456) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ll3h4-0001st-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4E6EB5092; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:05:04 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206A84509B; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:05:04 +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 01-bpGbeMVua; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:05:04 +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 E57A94503F; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:05:03 +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 n2LG53Sh025064; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:05:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2LG4wrs025051; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:04:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) In-Reply-To: <871vsrfptu.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:43:41 +0900") 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:109759 Archived-At: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:43:41 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > > The double slash in Mercurial repositories is actually a semi-standard > > way of referring to pathnames rooted at the `filesystem root' instead of > > the default starting directory for the particular URI authority. > > This is (or should be) defined by the scheme. Emacs should only do > canonicalization when the scheme defines it, or there's clear user > demand for canonicalization in a widely used scheme. Yes, that seems to make more sense :)