Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/26/2015 10:02 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:

> You can't "fix" default-directory; you could change its definition, but
> then you would have to fix (or at least verify)_every_ use of it, which
> is impossible, since it could be used in everyone's private code.

All uses that take advantage of "requires trailing slash" are arguably 
bugs. This kind of uses:

(let ((default-directory "~/.emacs.d")) (shell-command-to-string "pwd"))

=> "/home/gutov\n"