From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: . and ..
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:32:59 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403181532.i2IFWxP06342@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeekrqcsk6.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:18:01 +0100)
Andreas Schwab wrote:
Note that cd (without the -P option) in the POSIX shell works like Emacs.
The way I see it, without the -P option, the POSIX shell does not do
_any_ replacing of symbolic links in the path name. So without the -P
option, the question of whether to do that before or after simplifying
away .. does not arise. This is indeed a subtlety of cd one has to be
careful about. It is explicitly documented in the bash manual.
Of course, the behavior of `expand-file-name' is documented too.
There is a difference however. With `cd -L' vs `cd -P' one makes one
single choice. In Emacs one makes a similar choice by calling or not
calling `expand-file-name', a function whose primary purpose is
something completely unrelated. This is both inconvenient and
dangerous, as my ielm run illustrates.
I do _not_ suggest changing the behavior of the Emacs `cd' command,
because it indeed is consistent with the default -L behavior of the
POSIX shell.
Sincerely,
Luc.
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2004-03-18 0:03 . and Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-18 11:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-18 15:32 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
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