From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora)
Cc: 18310@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18310: 24.3.93; relative links don't work in eww and Windows 7
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:17:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhqhbyvg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjby4uhvoej.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora)
> Cc: 18310@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:43:48 +0100
>
> Something other than `default-directory' seems to be influencing it. I
> did some tests:
Like I said: Emacs uses the current drive to complete the missing
drive letter. That is what you see.
> Finally
>
> (let ((default-directory "\\\\"))
> (expand-file-name "../" "/something/bla"))
>
> Crashed the Emacs process on my machine.
It's not a crash, it's a deliberate abort. "\\\\" (i.e., 2
backslashes in a row without anything after that) is an invalid file
name on Windows. Just don't do that.
> The docstring should explain its relationship with the
> `default-directory' variable, which in the current version sounds like
> it's shadowed completely by the DEFAULT-DIRECTORY parameter. Perhaps a
> sentence could be added.
>
> If DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is nil or missing, the current buffer's value of
> `default-directory' is used. Even if DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is non-nil,
> `default-directory' may still be used to help canonicalize the
> resulting name for the current platform.
How does that obscure hint help? It doesn't tell anything that mere
mortals could understand.
Once again, you are talking about semi-invalid use cases. IMO,
complicating the doc string (which is not at all simple as it is) on
behalf of those use cases is not TRT.
> PS: Had a look at `url-expand-file-name': isn't it doing to much for
> `shr-expand-url''s purposes?
I have no idea, but as long as you need to resolve relative URLs, it
is your friend.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-21 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-21 10:33 bug#18310: 24.3.93; relative links don't work in eww and Windows 7 João Távora
2014-08-21 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-21 15:43 ` João Távora
2014-08-21 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-08-21 16:54 ` João Távora
2014-08-21 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-22 10:26 ` João Távora
2014-08-22 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-22 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-22 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-25 17:23 ` João Távora
2014-08-26 18:11 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-26 20:37 ` João Távora
2014-08-27 5:05 ` Glenn Morris
2014-09-18 17:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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