Re: paths are sensative to double separators

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:57:45 -0400
> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, Mike Mattie <address@hidden>
> 
> > I can't imagine anyone relies on having Emacs deliberately disobey
> > "/foo/" C-q "/" and convert it to "/".
> 
> C-q / doesn't say "mark this slash as a special slash that shouldn't
> be magical.  It only says "don't use the command bound to slash, but
> instead just insert a slash char".

Right.  If one wants to quote a file name, start it with a "/:"; see
the node "Quoted File Names" in the Emacs manual.  I don't think that
it will defeat the "//" case, but I have no system to check that
myself.