From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: let*: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:20:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnn1kvyi.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGP6POJFsVHXtaMrGAeh3_HixUUi-_3953tW62jbh46aPLCUCg@mail.gmail.com
Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>> Eval this
>>
>> (cd "..")
>>
>> enough times and it alternates between "/" and "/../"
>> indefinitely, maybe that's what happens?
>>
>> (But I don't know why, or what it tries to say with "/../"
>> which should be equivalent to "/" ... in the shell, cd from /
>> does not lead to /../ but will stay in /)
>
> They are really equivalent:
>
> werner@X10DAi-00:/$ realpath -e /../
> /
> werner@X10DAi-00:/$ realpath -e /
> /
Yeah, looks like a bug this. Harmless and technically not
incorrect perhaps but suboptimal/confusing, especially the
alternating back and forth.
(cd "..") at / should be a no-op that returns "/" IMO.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-28 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-24 14:52 let*: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-24 14:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-25 1:29 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-25 23:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-25 10:09 ` Stephen Berman
2021-09-25 10:45 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-25 11:04 ` Stephen Berman
2021-09-25 13:49 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-25 14:45 ` Stephen Berman
2021-09-25 15:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 3:08 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 3:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 3:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-28 5:25 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-28 7:20 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-09-28 8:02 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-28 8:24 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 1:43 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 2:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 3:02 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 3:57 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29 6:15 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 6:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29 7:37 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 8:21 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29 9:02 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 9:14 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-29 10:29 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-09-29 12:29 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-29 12:49 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-08 3:36 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-10 14:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-30 3:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29 4:35 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-09-29 6:17 ` Hongyi Zhao
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