From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:20:04 +0900 Message-ID: <87prgdsigb.fsf@xemacs.org> 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 1237471978 18025 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 14:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xah@xahlee.org, Mike Mattie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 15:14:15 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 1LkJ0J-0007Yt-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:13:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkIyw-0007lA-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkIyr-0007kV-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkIyn-0007kI-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48884 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkIyn-0007kF-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:49766) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkIyn-0006Jj-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178631535AF; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:12:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C27D11A2F2B; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:20:04 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:109695 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas writes: > 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, Which is rather uncommon and has an obvious, Emacs-wide solution: C-q /. > but it's also helpful when one really *wants* to start over from > the root of the filesystem :/ Which is much more common and deserves a one-keystroke solution.