From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: xah@xahlee.org
Cc: Mike Mattie <codermattie@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:16:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skl97og1.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa6b5cbe0903181950q2999f1cele9747c6e89142583@mail.gmail.com> (xah lee's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:50:37 -0700")
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:50:37 -0700, xah lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> in unix-like OSes, double slash is effectively taken to mean root.
> e.g. /foo/bar//baz.el would mean /baz.el
> This convention is somewhat rooted in unixes.
Not really, no:
keramida@kobe:/home/keramida$ cd /etc//security
keramida@kobe:/etc/security$ pwd
/etc/security
Having said that, I see that a double slash in find-file's prompt starts
over from the filesystem root. That's slightly annoying when trying to
open a filename with double slashes, but it's also helpful when one
really *wants* to start over from the root of the filesystem :/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 1:50 paths are sensative to double separators Mike Mattie
2009-03-19 2:50 ` xah lee
2009-03-19 5:42 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-03-19 6:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 16:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-03-19 19:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-20 0:38 ` xah lee
2009-03-19 9:48 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 11:16 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2009-03-19 14:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-19 15:33 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 5:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-20 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 14:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-20 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 21:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 22:56 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-21 0:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 4:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-21 16:04 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-20 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 19:08 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-19 23:59 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-03-19 3:09 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 10:26 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 15:46 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 21:18 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 17:50 ` Mike Mattie
2009-03-19 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 21:32 ` Mike Mattie
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2009-03-19 21:25 Xavier Maillard
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