From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: 21931@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: youngfrog@members.fsf.org
Subject: bug#21931: 25.0.50; behaviour of read-directory-name with double slashes
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:58:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4doph57.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ziy4vm3g.fsf@members.fsf.org> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:14:59 +0100")
Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org> writes:
>> What list were you expecting to see? "//" has always meant "start at root" to
>> mean, ignoring whatever comes prior. This is how C-x C-f works, and it means
>> you don't have to delete any existing default text in order to begin at root.
>
> Indeed, but when constructing a path via (concat foo "/" bar), it can
> happen that the result contains //. If this is then used as arg to
> read-directory-name, this leads to an unexpected default.
(expand-file-name bar foo) is your choice. If you dislike it, take
(concat (directory-file-name foo) "/" bar)
> Thanks for looking into it, I close it.
>
> Nico.
Best regards, Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 6:27 bug#21931: 25.0.50; behaviour of read-directory-name with double slashes Nicolas Richard
2015-11-20 19:19 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-23 14:14 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-11-23 20:58 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
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