From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Rose Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:56:31 +0100 Message-ID: <871vsr7qhs.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87prgdsigb.fsf@xemacs.org> <87tz5p5xyo.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87ocvwsq0z.fsf@xemacs.org> <87iqm4s0p3.fsf@xemacs.org> <871vsr3n1s.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237589639 19864 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2009 22:53:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xah@xahlee.org, Mike Mattie , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 23:55:15 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 1LkncR-0007AV-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:55:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lknb4-0002Cg-V4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lknak-00027C-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lknaf-00025A-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54843 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lknaf-000254-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:33507) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lknae-0005K9-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Mar 2009 22:53:21 -0000 Original-Received: from p5B043059.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ.gmx.de) [91.4.48.89] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 20 Mar 2009 23:53:21 +0100 X-Authenticated: #8529601 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Z0oscdN5ZKuiQFfBBPn178UF0gNz0A7DCx0SzpB Di+1y1CB45a9gk In-Reply-To: <871vsr3n1s.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:24:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.7 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:109741 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas writes: > ssh://user@host//foo The file `foo' at the file system root. > > This interpretation of URIs is not specific to `hg://' URIs, so if we do > something that parses this sort of double-slash path in the URL library, > it may be nice if we enable it at least for the first path delimiting > slash after the URI authority for most schemes. Or at least if we can > make it configurable which schemes support this sort of thing. A list > of URI schemes that support this sort of path-parsing would be really > nice to have as a customizable option :-) +1 Accepting URIs is the standard everywhere. Far the most applications accept URIs. Either a path is absolute, relative or an URI. It should be supported by default. Sebastian