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bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#57102: 29.0.50; Peculiar file-name-split edge case |
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Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:02:29 -0400 |
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> > There's the Posix peculiarity that /abc and //abc are potentially
> > distinct, but ///abc should be equivalent to /abc if I understood it
> > right.
We don't have to handle them that way in Emacs,
Emacs has its own rules about what double slashes mean.
In the GNU Project we do not "obey" standards such as POSIX -- we
follow them when that seems good for users, and we diverge from them
when there is a reason to.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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