From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <20090319175054.GA11263@reforged> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237494887 5868 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 20:34:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Mike Mattie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 21:36:03 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 1LkOy7-0003i8-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:35:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkOwk-0004fC-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkOwe-0004bV-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkOwZ-0004Xo-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44597 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkOwZ-0004Xl-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:16859) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkOwX-0004jq-NW; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:21 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiIFABdJwklFxIZP/2dsb2JhbACBT9Jkg3wGhGI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,391,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="35420369" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-79.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.134.79]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 19 Mar 2009 16:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CA46E7F0C; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20090319175054.GA11263@reforged> (Mike Mattie's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:50:54 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:109705 Archived-At: > the 'load' case is what spurred me to bring up the issue. I cannot > be sure that some path set by the user contains a trailing '/', > and so I need to append one. My crystal ball tells me you shouldn't worry about such details and use higher-level functions such as expand-file-name. Stefan