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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 900276502f..: Paul Eggert 2018-11-13 Act like POSIX sh if $HOME is relative
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:16:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlg4uwzhq.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ftv2ri0s.fsf@telefonica.net

> I was about to post a reply but Yuri already answered, so I'll only add
> a pointer to an official reference about this topic:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/file-path-formats

Emacs only has `default-directory` to keep track of the "current
directory" so it has no notion of having a different "current directory"
on every "drive".

So I think a $HOME of "z:" should be converted early on to
"z:/<something>" and after that, "p:" can only be interpreted by Emacs
as "p:/"


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-12 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-12 12:42 900276502f..: Paul Eggert 2018-11-13 Act like POSIX sh if $HOME is relative João Távora
2018-12-12 13:19 ` Yuri Khan
2018-12-12 14:54   ` João Távora
2018-12-12 15:22   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:29     ` Drew Adams
2018-12-12 16:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 13:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-12 14:53   ` João Távora
2018-12-12 15:14     ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-12 15:28       ` João Távora
2018-12-12 16:55         ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-12-12 17:19           ` João Távora
2018-12-12 17:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:16   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-12-12 16:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-12 15:30   ` João Távora
2018-12-12 16:35     ` Eli Zaretskii

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