From: xah lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:50:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa6b5cbe0903181950q2999f1cele9747c6e89142583@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged>
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in unix-like OSes, double slash is effectively taken to mean root.
e.g. /foo/bar//baz.el would mean /baz.el
This convention is somewhat rooted in unixes.
Xah
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that paths in Emacs are sensitive to double separators e.g:
>
> (load /foo/bar/baz.el) ;; works
> (load /foo/bar//baz.el) ;; broken
>
> The same behavior occurs with (find-file).
>
> This doesn't seem like a good thing. Is there a good reason for
> it that I am not aware of ?
>
> GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2009-03-07 on
> localhost
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Mattie
>
> --
> GnuPG Key: B9012279 is available from HKP server pgp.mit.edu
>
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Xah
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 1:50 paths are sensative to double separators Mike Mattie
2009-03-19 2:50 ` xah lee [this message]
2009-03-19 5:42 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-03-19 6:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 16:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-03-19 19:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-20 0:38 ` xah lee
2009-03-19 9:48 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 11:16 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-19 14:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-19 15:33 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 5:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-20 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 14:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-20 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 21:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 22:56 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-21 0:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 4:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-21 16:04 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-20 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 19:08 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-19 23:59 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-03-19 3:09 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 10:26 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 15:46 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 21:18 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 17:50 ` Mike Mattie
2009-03-19 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 21:32 ` Mike Mattie
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2009-03-19 21:25 Xavier Maillard
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