From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Mecklenburg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: M-x locate fails with no such directory / Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:20:16 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16177.21744.958000.999185@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <200308061441.h76EeksS012484@wolf.cimsoft.com> <9003-Wed06Aug2003215534+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1060197739 12716 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2003 19:22:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 21:22:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19kTrs-00062T-00 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 21:22:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kTrM-0006aS-6D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19kTrI-0006XO-CN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19kTqm-0006C8-Vc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.246.133.198] (helo=wolf.cimsoft.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kTql-00068Q-V0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2003 15:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from OSAKA.cimsoft.com (osaka.cimsoft.com [10.1.1.158]) by wolf.cimsoft.com (8.12.8/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h76JKGsS021894; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:20:32 -0600 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <9003-Wed06Aug2003215534+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5496 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5496 RM> (I've evaluated the source lisp function.) It appears to me that the RM> default-directory which is "/" is wrong for NTEmacs. EZ> Why is "/" wrong for NTEmacs? It means the root directory on the EZ> current drive. Okay, I agree with your statement. Nevertheless I get an emacs error (and backtrace) with "/" and not with "C:/". I don't know why. Thanks, -- Robert