Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> "D Goel" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory fname) dir)
>>
>>
>> should return fname back.  It is like an identity, right?  If not,
>> what is the way to *always* correctly do an expand-file-name ?
>
> This works for me:
> (concat (file-name-as-directory "~/tmp")
>         (file-name-nondirectory "~/tmp/~"))

I am afraid that the former version is _so_ ingrained into Elisp code
that we should add advice into DOC strings and Elisp manual.

_If_ the latter is sure to work under all circumstances.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum