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Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.
From: |
Han Boetes |
Subject: |
Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:15:24 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Han wrote:
> > If you try to open /tmp//foo emacs will try to open /foo, of
> > course this is a great feature, but it forgets that /tmp//foo
> > is a valid notation of /tmp/foo.
>
> Not remebering various standards exactly on the topic, but I
> don't recall any guarante that /tmp//foo must be the same as
> /tmp/foo.
This is not about standards, but about what is the expected
behaviour.
> As for the side-effect behaviour you suggest, I think it would
> confuse the hell out of me aleast...
I don't think so. In the case of /tmp//foo /foo will be searched
for first and that's what will be loaded and what is meant.
Just sometimes people type /tmp//foo while they mean /tmp/foo, and
in that case it's unlikely you will find /foo.
I'm quite sure this will be exactly what people meant and expected
to happen.
# Han
Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work., Tomas Zerolo, 2005/11/12
- Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work., Chong Yidong, 2005/11/12
- Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.], Lars Hansen, 2005/11/13
- RE: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.], Drew Adams, 2005/11/13
- Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.], Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/13
- RE: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.], Drew Adams, 2005/11/13
- Re: Start value in minibuffer [Was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.], Lennart Borgman, 2005/11/13