From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: References: <87ftv2ri0s.fsf@telefonica.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544627758 4823 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2018 15:15:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:15:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 12 16:15:54 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6Er-00019W-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:15:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45534 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6Gy-0006A7-LQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6FR-0005fm-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6FO-0002G1-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43595 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6FO-0002FQ-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gX6DB-0007Qz-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:14:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2eMVgwXT+iFpWa6MEr7Z0eNT1q4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231781 Archived-At: > 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:/" and after that, "p:" can only be interpreted by Emacs as "p:/" Stefan