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Re: expand-file-name, DOS/Windows, and directory separator


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: expand-file-name, DOS/Windows, and directory separator
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:38:36 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eric Abrahamsen [2022-02-15 09:59:53] wrote:
> My reading of `expand-file-name' (I don't really speak C) is that, if we
> run it over a file path produced by an external process on a Windows

I'll let Eli confirm that this is indeed guaranteed behavior, but I just
want to point out that the GNU convention (which we use) says these
aren't "path"s but "file names".


        Stefan




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