From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt" Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:46:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bouahatm.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316857661 9299 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2011 09:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:47:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , 6339@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 24 11:47:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7Opb-00055y-7p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:47:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7Opa-0005ge-HA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7OpY-0005gZ-0L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7OpX-0002oJ-3R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7OpX-0002oE-0d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7Oq1-0001S5-Rj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lennart Borgman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6339 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6339-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6339.13168576635557 (code B ref 6339); Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2011 09:47:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7Opj-0001RZ-0g for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7Oph-0001RS-Fs for 6339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so4181613fxd.3 for <6339@debbugs.gnu.org>; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:47:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=1fu5nDVFKWFF/sELgcXku24HwxiCuEP1sIl9PnQm7zk=; b=HOCA6omvssJr8VSYV2Pepzu3rMrrTCoiwePHcW9Pe9zbu5oQ5N2ZSA1CVvyRT4wKTY OitFrVRPghe+zorPxIj0WTyE1cFp5aYkUk9o5mqVvRjfiyJoLMzDFwE0AfRbCclOJppk ol6Jm0ppWtT4iFheHZsUC5Xo98uBwKzCa+Qpk= Original-Received: by 10.223.39.3 with SMTP id d3mr6704945fae.99.1316857629418; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.152.20.229 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:46:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bouahatm.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:48:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:51766 Archived-At: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:35, Jason Rumney wrote: > Juanma Barranquero writes: > >> file:///c:/some/file.txt is a URL, i.e., it's a pointer to some >> specific file in some specific place (or files with identical path and >> name in different hosts, because the URL is missing the HOST part, >> defaulting then to localhost). In fact, it is the URL that points to a >> file, in some filesystem, with absolute path "c:/some/file.txt". > > No. That is not an absolute path on most platforms. This is not about absolute path in the platform syntax. It is an absolute path as understood as part of an URL. That has to be translated to a platform path.