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bug#49918: 28.0.50; cd function expands CDPATH incorrectly
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#49918: 28.0.50; cd function expands CDPATH incorrectly |
Date: |
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 14:42:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Why does the current implementation of parse-colon-path use
> expand-file-name? The comment says "to expand "~", but the original
> implementation in Emacs 27 didn't do that.
I should probably have written (etc) after that comment...
> Bug#21454 only wanted to avoid mis-interpreting duplicate slashes in
> the input path, but there's no need to collapse them, so I don't see
> how the call to expand-file-name is at all necessary, and could
> potentially change behavior in unintended ways. Am I missing
> something?
Tino's tests in files-tests-bug-21454 test explicitly for the duplicate
slash collapsing, so I assumed that was part of the point. But I may
well be mistaken -- feel free to adjust this some more.
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