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


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:39:52 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt)

Peter Lee <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>     Eli> Could you try modifying locate.el to bind default-directory
>     Eli> to something sensible in the *Locate* buffer, and see if that
>     Eli> helps?
>
> Changing the default-directory to "~/" instead of "/" fixes the
> problem.  I'm not sure if it's a valid solution across all systems
> though.  Thanks.

Judging by the comment above that block of code, that might not be a
valid solution. It is probably better to use expand-file-name there.




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