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RE: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:16:02 -0800 |
So I would like to suggest that if opening /foo fails emacs will
s|//|/|g and then try to open /tmp/foo, and if that fails will
report that /foo and /tmp/foo do not exist.
It won't work, because `/tmp/' is deleted in the minibuffer
before Emacs ever tries to open a file.
That is a very important feature, and must be enabled by default.
However, it could make sense to turn off this feature when
insert-default-directory is nil. Do people think that is a good idea?
I don't.
But I can't give a good reason why ;-).
If people want to make it possible to interpret /tmp//foo as /tmp/foo, I'd
prefer that that be available only as a user option, as opposed to having it
happen now and again, depending on the context. IOW, I would like to control
that as a user, and not have the program or its designers decide for me.
I have no problem with the current (traditional) behavior.
Re: Turning on file-name-shadow-mode by default (was: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work.), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/13
Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work., Richard M. Stallman, 2005/11/12
Re: opening /tmp//foo doesn't work., Stefan Monnier, 2005/11/13