On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:59 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

You need to be on a system that supports that. Windows is one of
them; not sure if there are any others left nowadays.

> Or can you try recreating the problem on your system with this patch?

I didn't try.

Can you please try it out and see if this patch causes any issue with such paths? I believe that if you have "// //share/foo", it should still work fine.

> Or, should this patch anyways go in the master, and we let the emacs-devel give us feedback if this results in
> anything unexpected?

It should definitely go to master only.

Correct, I meant to emphasize that the patch be committed without a defcustom to begin with .. and then we can add the defcustom if needed.