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bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-inse
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p |
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Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:36:38 -0400 |
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> (let ((default-directory "~foo"))
> (expand-file-name "bar"))
> => "~foo/~foo/bar"
That is not right, but I think "~foo/bar" would be right.
> Part of what's confusing here is that file-name-absolute-p returns
> t on file names starting with "~", even though its doc string
> explicitly states that such a file name is not absolute.
This contradiction is not good. But I would like to point out
that, in a certain sesne, a name starting with ~ is absolute.
It is not relative to the current directory.
We may have a problem with two different meanings of "absolute",
each being pertinent to some situations.
> My inclination is that if default-directory starts with "~", then we should
try
> to convert it to a (truly) absolute file name.
There may be some circumstances where that is better, but not always.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, (continued)
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/07
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/07
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/07
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/08
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/10
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p,
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- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/12
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/12
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/15
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Paul Eggert, 2019/07/20
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/21
- bug#36502: Fwd: bug#36502: 27.0.50; infinite loop in file-name-case-insensitive-p, Ken Brown, 2019/07/21