From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han Boetes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work. Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:15:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20051112151545.GN11234@boetes.org> References: <20051112104720.GK11234@boetes.org> <1131806415.753652.8779.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131808748 22167 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2005 15:19:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 12 16:19:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eax9c-000613-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eax9b-0007bd-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eax6O-0006yk-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eax6K-0006y3-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eax6J-0006xs-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:15:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [82.73.147.65] (helo=boetes.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eax6J-0000CU-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 6343 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Nov 2005 15:15:46 -0000 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1131806415.753652.8779.nullmailer@Update.UU.SE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45820 Archived-At: Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Han wrote: > > If you try to open /tmp//foo emacs will try to open /foo, of > > course this is a great feature, but it forgets that /tmp//foo > > is a valid notation of /tmp/foo. > > Not remebering various standards exactly on the topic, but I > don't recall any guarante that /tmp//foo must be the same as > /tmp/foo. This is not about standards, but about what is the expected behaviour. > As for the side-effect behaviour you suggest, I think it would > confuse the hell out of me aleast... I don't think so. In the case of /tmp//foo /foo will be searched for first and that's what will be loaded and what is meant. Just sometimes people type /tmp//foo while they mean /tmp/foo, and in that case it's unlikely you will find /foo. I'm quite sure this will be exactly what people meant and expected to happen. # Han