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: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87prgdsigb.fsf@xemacs.org> <87tz5p5xyo.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87ocvwsq0z.fsf@xemacs.org> <87iqm4s0p3.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237580453 25786 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2009 20:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , xah@xahlee.org, Mike Mattie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 21:22:10 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 1LklEG-0005aa-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:22:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LklCt-00084p-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LklBv-0007tb-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LklBq-0007s2-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57537 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LklBq-0007rv-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:36973) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LklBq-0001iF-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n2KKJIAQ006467; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:18 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 46BD780DF6; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:19:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87iqm4s0p3.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:55:52 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3236=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:109733 Archived-At: > The question I asked is, will "hg://authority//foo" be converted to > "hg://authority/foo"? Assuming that the URL library is extended to understand the `hg' protocol, and that url-handler-mode is modified to provide access to it: no, such a conversion will not take place. > Url-handler-mode is clearly broken in 22.1.1. It's not very reliable in Emacs-23 either, to tell you the truth, which is why it's not enabled by default. > It doesn't understand the hg: scheme, so after enabling url handler > mode, C-x C-f C-a C-k "hg://" ==> "/" in the minibuffer, and even Indeed, there is no support for the `hg' protocol in the URL library. > worse, C-x C-f C-a C-k "file:///Users/steve//.zshrc" RET ==> wrong > type argument: stringp, nil. I hope/assume this works better in 23, > but maybe you should check. Just checked: got the same error (plus a few other odd things along the way). Thanks for bringing it up, Stefan