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Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp |
Date: |
Fri, 21 May 2004 19:41:34 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:58:25 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>
> One probably should use `convert-standard-filename'. That is supposed
> to work on _all_ operating systems.
convert-standard-filename will leave "/" unaltered, since it's a
valid file name on MS-Windows filesystems.
My guess is that the problem is that locate.el uses "/" without a
drive letter. I vaguely remember that it was hard to find a correct
behavior for expand-file-name when its second argument is "/", so
perhaps this bug is some side effect of what was decided long ago to
do in such cases.
Again, I don't think Emacs on Windows should have any buffer whose
default-directory is "/".
- find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/19
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/20
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/20
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/20
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/20
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/20
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/20
- 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 <=
- 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, 2004/05/23
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/23