Re: paths are sensative to double separators

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:43:41 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas writes:
>
>  > The double slash in Mercurial repositories is actually a semi-standard
>  > way of referring to pathnames rooted at the `filesystem root' instead of
>  > the default starting directory for the particular URI authority.
>
> This is (or should be) defined by the scheme.  Emacs should only do
> canonicalization when the scheme defines it, or there's clear user
> demand for canonicalization in a widely used scheme.

Yes, that seems to make more sense :)