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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:05:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eka79uf8.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ll4iph80.fsf@gnufans.net> (D. Goel's message of "Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:07:59 -0400")

"D Goel" <deego@gnufans.org> wrote:
> (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory fname) dir)
>
>
> should return fname back.  It is like an identity, right?  If not,
> what is the way to *always* correctly do an expand-file-name ?

This works for me:
(concat (file-name-as-directory "~/tmp")
        (file-name-nondirectory "~/tmp/~"))


paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-10  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-07 19:07 Emacs and Squiggles as filenames D Goel
2005-07-09  4:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-09  4:21 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-10  4:05 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2005-07-10  8:31   ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11  5:34     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11  7:53       ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 21:14         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-11 12:37   ` D Goel
2005-07-11 13:41     ` David Kastrup
2005-07-11 15:32       ` Stefan Monnier

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