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bug#21931: 25.0.50; behaviour of read-directory-name with double slashes


From: John Wiegley
Subject: bug#21931: 25.0.50; behaviour of read-directory-name with double slashes
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:19:27 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

>>>>> Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org> writes:

> ("/tmp/src/" "/" "src/" "/" "/src/" "/")
> Is this intended ?

What list were you expecting to see? "//" has always meant "start at root" to
mean, ignoring whatever comes prior. This is how C-x C-f works, and it means
you don't have to delete any existing default text in order to begin at root.

John





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