From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:12 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20090319015037.GC6695@reforged> <20090319.064244.95961919.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237445682 31960 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 06:54:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 07:55:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkCAV-0005xC-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkC98-000769-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkC92-000763-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LkC8x-00075r-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51382 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkC8x-00075o-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:50006) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkC8u-0004Qv-Qd; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LkC8t-0002MF-N6; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n2J6sCEc029961; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:12 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:12 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.72] [10.114.112.72]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:12 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 6F3FD52E25E; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:12 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20090319.064244.95961919.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (Harald Hanche-Olsen's message of "Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:42:44 +0100 (CET)") Original-Lines: 14 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109686 Archived-At: Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > Miles Bader gave a different explanation for emacs's behaviour. It > seems odd to me that an interactive feature (a good one, too) should > influence how path names are interpreted in code, however. I agree with you, but I'm not sure that it's reasonable to change it now, given how long Emacs has behaved this way... -Miles -- x y Z!