From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 767@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:40:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C42E3D.3000709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvljy321mh.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> If on w32 default-directory is something like c:\top\sub then the
>
> Then it's a bug. C-h v default-directory says:
>
> Name of default directory of current buffer. Should end with slash.
> To interactively change the default directory, use command `cd'.
>
> So if it doesn't end in slash, we have a problem.
I never noticed that it must end with a slash and in many circumstances
it works without it.
I suggested that this should be fixed somewhere in start-process and I
think Chong added something along those lines.
Do you suggest something else? (Making Emacs actually require the ending
slash seems is not very backwards compatible.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-07 19:40 UTC|newest]
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2008-08-23 13:05 ` bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 19:20 ` bug#767: marked as done (23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory) Emacs bug Tracking System
2008-09-07 19:34 ` bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 19:40 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-09-07 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 20:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-07 23:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-26 22:18 Chong Yidong
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