From: Chris Moore <dooglus@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:40:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ps9qi9e4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEECGCOAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun\, 7 Jan 2007 14\:08\:06 -0800")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Followup info:
>
> 1. It's about `abbreviate-file-name', not `expand-file-name' or
> `substitute-in-file-name'. See subject line and original report I sent.
The value of HOME is cached the first time abbreviate-file-name is
called, and never updated, using exactly the code you quoted here:
> The code for `abbreviate-file-name' defines `abbreviated-home-dir' as
> follows, in order to be able to "substitute `~' for the user's home
> directory", as the doc string says:
>
> (or abbreviated-home-dir
> (setq abbreviated-home-dir
> (let ((abbreviated-home-dir "$foo"))
> (concat "^" (abbreviate-file-name
> (expand-file-name "~"))
> "\\(/\\|\\'\\)"))))
>
> The comment for this code is as follows, which indicates that a slash is
> added to distinguish the home dir from a file in that dir:
If you look up 3 lines from that comment about the slash, you'll see:
;; Compute and save the abbreviated homedir name.
;; We defer computing this until the first time it's needed,
Chris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-08 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-06 7:56 abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect Drew Adams
2007-01-06 11:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-06 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-06 22:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-07 2:44 ` Miles Bader
2007-01-07 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-07 14:29 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-07 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-07 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-07 22:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-08 1:40 ` Chris Moore [this message]
2007-01-08 2:04 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-08 10:15 ` Jason Rumney
2007-01-08 16:29 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-09 0:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-09 0:30 ` Jason Rumney
2007-01-09 12:55 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-09 17:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-08 8:44 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-08 13:07 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-08 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-09 12:52 ` Stephen Leake
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