From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file-exists-p on empty string Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:11:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6C8B93F1-4549-4223-AD3D-58A8CF28A97C@gmail.com> <8736o05o1l.fsf@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="132948"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 08 07:15:12 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 (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h28ml-000YRo-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:15:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h28mk-0006Nt-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58592) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h28me-0006Lo-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h28me-0002ba-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37182 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h28me-0002Zn-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 01:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h28mc-000YIZ-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:15:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:JN52+Ln3SZOwW87t+4iAZd8ANbk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:233916 Archived-At: > What about the appended patch? It does not touch the docstrings, but it > explains the situation more verbose in the Lisp manual. Fine by me. Maybe we should add a node that talks specifically about the way Emacs treats file names differently from the host system. Stefan