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Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp
From: |
Luc Teirlinck |
Subject: |
Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp |
Date: |
Sun, 23 May 2004 09:25:52 -0500 (CDT) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Sorry, you lost me: what is that ``best support'' in dired that one
loses if the default-directory is not "/"? And why cannot that
support work on all Emacs platforms?
I can not check. However, from your postings I got the impression
that one would have problems on MS Windows if the files listed in the
locate buffer spanned more than one drive. From the comment before
the definition of locate-mode, I definitely also got the impression
that there would be at least some part of the dired functionality that
would no longer function perfectly.
Essentially, from your postings I got the impression that on MS
Windows, there is no analogue to:
sudo find / -name mypattern
If so, then anything that needs to do something like that will have
problems on MS Windows.
The original problem was that
(file-directory-p "d:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/antiword-0.34/")
returned nil, even though the directory existed, if the default
directory was "/". This seems strange, since
"d:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/antiword-0.34/" looks to me to be an absolute
file name, so default-directory should be completely ignored.
Sincerely,
Luc.
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, (continued)
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/21
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/21
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/21
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Breton, 2004/05/21
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Jason Rumney, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Breton, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Breton, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp,
Luc Teirlinck <=
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/24
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/24
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Breton, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/24