Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp

[Jason Rumney]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:29:19 -0500 (CDT)
>> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Jason suggested (expand-file-name "/").
>
> I was under the impression that Jason suggested (expand-file-name "~/"),
> but perhaps I misunderstood.

No, I was suggesting (expand-file-name "/"). Maybe it is better to
fix whatever part of dired depends on this, so that it will work when
the locate.db spans more than one drive on Windows, but at least this
will not break other platforms, and will improve the situation
slightly on Windows.