From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:25:18 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200903192125.n2JLPIZa019745@zogzog.maillard.mobi> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237498199 16719 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 21:29:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:29:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hanche@math.ntnu.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 22:31:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkPpU-0007I5-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:31:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkPo7-0001DS-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkPo2-0001DD-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkPo0-0001Bx-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36709 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkPo0-0001Bt-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ded1.conovae.com ([88.191.52.166]:40140 helo=mf1.conovae.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkPnw-0002AY-E4; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: by mf1.conovae.net (Postfix, from userid 10) id 12EA92613FA; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:25:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zogzog.maillard.mobi (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2JLPJvS019746; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:25:19 +0100 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.3/8.13.8/Submit) id n2JLPIZa019745; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:25:18 +0100 In-reply-to: message from Miles Bader on Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:12 +0900 User-Agent: Rmail GNU emacs 23.0 on Slackware 12.2.0 Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr Original-References: X-UUCPssh-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-UUCPssh: Found to be clean X-UUCPssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-UUCPssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:109707 Archived-At: Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > Miles Bader gave a different explanation for emacs's behaviour. It > seems odd to me that an interactive feature (a good one, too) should > influence how path names are interpreted in code, however. I agree with you, but I'm not sure that it's reasonable to change it now, given how long Emacs has behaved this way... I agree with Miles here although the "posix way" should be also supported (at the user discretion -i.e. via a defcustom). Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org