From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 08:22:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEEBOCOAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ulkkgz7v0.fsf@gnu.org>
> > I would expect (abbreviate-file-name "c:/foo/bar") to return
> > "~/foo/bar", but it returns "c:/foo/bar".
>
> This is a feature: the Windows port behaves here like the Unix version
> does, and doesn't change the file name if the home directory is a root
> directory.
OK.
> my $HOME's value is "d:/usr/eli":
> (abbreviate-file-name "d:/usr/eli/foo/bar") => "~/foo/bar"
I see. To tell the truth, I didn't bother to change $HOME outside Emacs and
start emacs -Q again to test the case other than HOME = "c:\\". I did try
using `setenv' to change "HOME", but that apparently doesn't have an effect
here. That is:
(setenv "HOME" "d:/usr/eli")
(abbreviate-file-name "d:/usr/eli/foo/bar") => "d:/usr/eli/foo/bar"
So, I didn't notice that it does work properly. Setting $HOME in Windows
itself to "d:\eli\" and then starting emacs -Q, I do get what you showed:
(abbreviate-file-name "d:/usr/eli/foo/bar") => "~/foo/bar"
So, I was mistaken - no problem. Thx for the clear explanation.
How about mentioning in the doc string that "~" is not substituted for the
user's home dir if that is the root. ("/" in Unix or Linux,
"<drive-letter>:\" in Windows)? The doc string gives an incorrect idea of
what the function does, in this case (which is common in Windows).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-06 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-06 7:56 abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect Drew Adams
2007-01-06 11:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 16:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-01-06 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 22:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-07 2:44 ` Miles Bader
2007-01-07 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-07 14:29 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-07 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-07 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-07 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-08 1:40 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-08 2:04 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-08 10:15 ` Jason Rumney
2007-01-08 16:29 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-09 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-09 0:30 ` Jason Rumney
2007-01-09 12:55 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-09 17:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-08 8:44 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-08 13:07 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-08 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 12:52 ` Stephen Leake
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