From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-relative-name and remote files Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:24:43 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E5C8BAC.8000201@math.ku.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046302559 18782 80.91.224.249 (26 Feb 2003 23:35:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18oB5S-0004s0-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:35:42 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18oBM6-0005Mb-00 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 00:52:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oB4X-0005yO-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:34:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oAyE-0002vN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oAvF-0000mT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18oAus-0000bG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18oAup-0000O3-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:24:43 -0500 Original-To: Lars Hansen In-reply-to: <3E5C8BAC.8000201@math.ku.dk> (message from Lars Hansen on Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:41:00 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11993 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11993 I see that (expand-file-name "/larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:/../emacs") returns "/larsh@galois.math.ku.dk:/../emacs". That is surprising; I expected it to return "/emacs". It would probably be easy to change this, and that change would probably fix the whole problem. But was this done intentionally? Does it serve a specific purpose? If we don't change this behavior, then we do need to change file-relative-name.