From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, xah@xahlee.org, stephen@xemacs.org,
codermattie@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: paths are sensative to double separators
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6v07y3v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uskl8p7bn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:01:00 +0200")
>> > I can't imagine anyone relies on having Emacs deliberately disobey
>> > "/foo/" C-q "/" and convert it to "/".
>>
>> C-q / doesn't say "mark this slash as a special slash that shouldn't
>> be magical. It only says "don't use the command bound to slash, but
>> instead just insert a slash char".
> Right. If one wants to quote a file name, start it with a "/:"; see
> the node "Quoted File Names" in the Emacs manual. I don't think that
> it will defeat the "//" case,
Depends what you mean by "defeat". E.g. C-x C-f /:/foo///bar RET
will open /foo/bar.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 1:50 paths are sensative to double separators Mike Mattie
2009-03-19 2:50 ` xah lee
2009-03-19 5:42 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-03-19 6:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 16:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-03-19 19:37 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-20 0:38 ` xah lee
2009-03-19 9:48 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 11:16 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-19 14:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-19 15:33 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 5:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-20 12:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 14:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-20 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-20 21:24 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 22:56 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-21 0:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 4:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-21 16:04 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-20 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-20 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-19 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 19:08 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-03-19 23:59 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-03-19 3:09 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 10:26 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 15:46 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 21:18 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-19 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 17:50 ` Mike Mattie
2009-03-19 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-19 21:32 ` Mike Mattie
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2009-03-19 21:25 Xavier Maillard
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