From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 19 Date: 10 Mar 2003 10:56:27 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E69AA8E.6020404@math.ku.dk> <848yvpudl7.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047261462 15397 80.91.224.249 (10 Mar 2003 01:57:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 10 02:57:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18sCXt-00040D-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:57:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18sCtv-0004Kr-00 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:20:27 +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 18sCXR-00082N-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:57:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sCX8-0007q3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sCX4-0007YY-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:56:52 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18sCWo-0006qF-00; Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:56:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.194])h2A1uUw07466; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:56:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id h2A1uUU15043; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:56:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id h2A1uRq16476; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:56:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) id h2A1uRB11734; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:56:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 71C6F3712; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:56:27 +0900 (JST) Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (=?iso-8859-15?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <848yvpudl7.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Original-Lines: 11 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:12217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12217 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > That just doesn't make sense. It neglects "~". IMHO, a filename > such as "~/../bla" makes perfect sense, and I think that "~" should > be expanded first, before processing "..". >>From a user's point of view, I definitely agree. Also with environment- variables; I use names such as `$foo/../bar' quite often. -Miles --=20 We live, as we dream -- alone....