From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 0528a7c: Ensure that expand-file-name returns an absolute file name Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:34:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190708223951.10291.7621@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190708223953.3172920BD5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="260404"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 10 00:51:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hkyxM-0015Gn-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:51:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56580 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkyhg-0004Hs-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkyhV-0004GI-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkyhL-0002Uc-8w; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hkyhK-0003Nw-F9; Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:34:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:13:52 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238488 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > A relative `default-directory` value is an error. > We should signal that error rather than try and paper over it. That would be logical, but maybe it could also cause a situation where you can't access any file. If you're a wizard, you could get out by setting that variable -- but nonwizards wouldn't know how to get out of this. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)