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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: |
Tue, 25 May 2004 08:12:49 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:51:05 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > How did you test this?
>
> Simply by using the unaltered locate.el, which does, as you mentioned:
>
> There seems to be some confusion here.
Indeed.
> My claim was that if one tries to set default-directory to something
> _different_ from "/" in `locate-mode' (and there have been two
> different proposals to do so), then that causes trouble for `i' and
> probably for other commands as well. From my original message:
>
> 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?
>
> For instance, if one of the listed files is a directory, then using
> `i' to insert that directory will only work if the default directory
> is "/'.
>
> I answered the first of your two questions in the above quote.
Yes, but I don't see how this is relevant to what I wrote in the
message to which you replied. Here's what led to that:
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
As I said earlier, `i' works for me in the DOS port.
Can you show where in the code invoked by `i' does Emacs concatenate
default-directory with "/home/teirllm/compdir/"? It obviously does
something that doesn't fail on non-Posix platforms, but what?
How did you test this?
I thought your question ``how did you test that?'' refers to the fact
that `i' works for me in the DOS port, so I replied:
> Simply by using the unaltered locate.el
If your question was not related to `i' working on MS-DOS, then what
did you want to ask, precisely?
> Is your current position that "/" is the correct value for MS Windows
> and hence should not be changed?
There are several issues that I'd like us to try to solve:
- why does "/" fail on Windows? I don't see why it should
- why did you get on GNU/Linux a concatenation of your home
directory and the file name, as in
"/home/teirllm/home/teirllm/compdir/"? where's the code that did
that, and why that doesn't happen on MS-DOS?
- 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, 2004/05/23
- 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
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/24
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- 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 <=
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/26
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/05/25
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/26
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Peter Lee, 2004/05/26
- Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/26