From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17641: 24.3.91; (locate-dominating-file "." Makefile) returns nil. 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X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:89749 Archived-At: Evalling (locate-dominating-file "." "Makefile") I get nil (unless the current directory has the file Makefile in it). I expected to get some parent directory containing that file. otoh, evalling: (locate-dominating-file default-directory "Makefile") works as expected. In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.20) of 2014-05-13 on LDLC-portable Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11406000 System Description: Ubuntu 13.10 -- Nico.