From: Edgar Vincent <e-v@posteo.net>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does (file-exists-p "") return t?
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:10:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1p713ln.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c97829f85178acf54917@heytings.org>
Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
> When the argument to file-exists-p is not an absolute file name, it is
> understood as being relative to default-directory. Therefore with an empty
> string, file-exists-p checks whether default-directory exists, which is normally
> the case. But
>
> (let ((default-directory “/nonexistent”)) (file-exists-p “”))
>
> returns nil.
Thank you very much for your reply. This makes sense - and I’m sure it is mentioned somewhere
in the documentation.
Edgar Vincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-09 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-09 10:41 Why does (file-exists-p "") return t? Edgar Vincent
2023-02-09 10:56 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-02-09 11:10 ` Edgar Vincent [this message]
2023-02-09 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-09 21:05 ` Edgar Vincent
2023-02-10 4:20 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-11 10:10 ` Bruno Barbier
2023-02-11 11:28 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-11 19:34 ` Bruno Barbier
2023-02-11 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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