Re: paths are sensative to double separators

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Giorgos Keramidas writes:

 > Having said that, I see that a double slash in find-file's prompt starts
 > over from the filesystem root.  That's slightly annoying when trying to
 > open a filename with double slashes,

Which is rather uncommon and has an obvious, Emacs-wide solution: C-q /.

 > but it's also helpful when one really *wants* to start over from
 > the root of the filesystem :/

Which is much more common and deserves a one-keystroke solution.