From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 12351@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:59:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fw2m8jj4.fsf@cube.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05fw2my9px.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:14:18 -0500")
on Mon Dec 31 2012, Glenn Morris <rgm-AT-gnu.org> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>> It puts nils in exec-path when PATH contains empty elements.
>
> man bash:
>
> A zero-length (null) directory name in the value of PATH indicates the
> current directory.
>
> C-h v exec-path
>
> nil [means] (try default directory).
>
> So this all seems totally consistent to me.
I stand corrected. Please fix the docstring, but otherwise I have no
argument to make here.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing Software Development Training
http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-31 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 18:58 bug#12351: 24.1; parse-colon-path turns empty paths into nil Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-30 18:52 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-30 19:53 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-30 20:37 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-30 22:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31 3:08 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 7:14 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:59 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2012-12-31 10:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-12-31 1:40 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-31 3:11 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 6:56 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 7:07 ` Glenn Morris
2012-12-31 12:58 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-31 16:10 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
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