From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt" Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:28:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bouahatm.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316867381 31703 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2011 12:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, 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 14:29:36 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 1R7RMO-0002PQ-90 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54740 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RMN-0004zv-Rk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RML-0004zm-1D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:29:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RMJ-00039N-Vh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:35619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RMJ-00039J-Su for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RMp-0005tq-BO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:30:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:30:03 +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=B6339.131686735822592 (code B ref 6339); Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6339) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2011 12:29:18 +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 1R7RM6-0005sL-0w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RM4-0005sC-4T for 6339@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R7RLU-0008WI-E2; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:28:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bouahatm.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:35:17 +0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:30:03 -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:51775 Archived-At: > 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. Please note that the GNU terminology for this is "file name" -- "path" means a list of directories, only. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/