From: Bruno Barbier <brubar.cs@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, Edgar Vincent <e-v@posteo.net>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does (file-exists-p "") return t?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:10:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63e7697c.1c0a0220.a6be.a36d@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+XF8TYpT6Qn6Brb@protected.localdomain>
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> * Edgar Vincent <e-v@posteo.net> [2023-02-10 00:11]:
>> I didn’t know that file-exists-p used expand-file-name, but it does seem obvious.
>
> To avoid the problem maybe you should use `expand-file-name' before
> you check it with `file-exists-p'
>
> As otherwise you may check the wrong path.
Why ?
One of the first thing `file-exists-p' is doing is to call
`expand-file-name' to expand the file name. I don't see how calling
`expand-file-name' before would help.
Bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-11 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-09 10:41 Why does (file-exists-p "") return t? Edgar Vincent
2023-02-09 10:56 ` Gregory Heytings
2023-02-09 11:10 ` Edgar Vincent
2023-02-09 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-09 21:05 ` Edgar Vincent
2023-02-10 4:20 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-11 10:10 ` Bruno Barbier [this message]
2023-02-11 11:28 ` Jean Louis
2023-02-11 19:34 ` Bruno Barbier
2023-02-11 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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