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bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32
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Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32 |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Dec 2016 12:31:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I looked into this, and I indeed think there might be a problem here.
> I agree that "~" should not be expanded for file names escaped with
> "/:", but before I propose a solution, I think we should decide
> whether the "/:" escape should cause the rest be expanded "as usual",
> i.e. produce an absolute file name after "/:" for local file names,
> minus the "~" expansion. Currently, Unix file names are not expanded
> because '/' as the first character makes them look as absolute file
> names. MS-Windows specific code, OTOH, looks under the hood, and does
> expand the rest.
>
> IOW, the question is whether on Windows we should have this:
>
> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file") => "/:c:/~/path/file"
>
> or this:
>
> (expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file") => "/:~/path/file"
>
> If we want the former, then maybe the Unix code should be fixed to
> produce "/:/~/path/file" in that case.
>
> Thoughts?
(expand-file-name "/:~/path/./file") => "/:~/path/file"
looks proper to me. Prepending "c:/" moves the file to another location
on the c: drive, perhaps.
What does (expand-file-name "/:dir/path/./file") ?
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, (continued)
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, npostavs, 2016/12/12
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Michael Albinus, 2016/12/13
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/24
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, npostavs, 2016/12/24
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/24
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Noam Postavsky, 2016/12/24
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/24
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, npostavs, 2016/12/24
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/27
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/26
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Michael Albinus, 2016/12/26
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/27
- bug#25183: 26.0.50; expanding quoted file name on w32, Michael Albinus, 2016/12/27