Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4d3a595: `load-path' should contain only directory names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:24:19 +0100
> 
> > I'd be interested to know what percentage of people on this list knew
> > that "directory name" in Emacs meant strictly "something with a trailing
> > slash".
> 
> It likely does on Windows/MSDOS since C:filename and C:\filename mean
> entirely different things.

You are right in general.  However, in Emacs, C:foo and C:/foo (and
C:\foo) mean the same thing, at least on MS-Windows.  We don't support
the so-called "drive-relative" file names.  (Not that I think this
factoid matters for the purposes of this discussion; I just wanted to
refute a misconception.)