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 11:47:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237480205 18559 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 16:30:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xah@xahlee.org, Mike Mattie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 17:31:21 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 1LkL9F-0002qw-JN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:31:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkL7t-0005SB-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkKSw-00064R-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkKSr-00063H-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56515 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkKSr-00063E-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:63090 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkKSq-0003ER-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:24 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiIFAEsGwklFxIZP/2dsb2JhbACBT9Iqg3wGhGI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,389,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="35403249" 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 11:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8BE9E7F0B; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:47:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:16:14 +0200") 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:109699 Archived-At: > Having said that, I see that a double slash in find-file's prompt starts > over from the filesystem root. That's slightly annoying when trying to > open a filename with double slashes, but it's also helpful when one > really *wants* to start over from the root of the filesystem :/ In normal Unix file systems, there cannot be a "filename with double slashes". Emacs is already careful to preserve double slashes in the few known cases where they can appear (mostly in "///"), so if you find more such cases, please report them here so we can try and teach Emacs about them. Stefan