Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:06:04 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
> 
>    (convert-standard-filename "/") returned "/" on my system.
> 
> Sorry, I responded a little bit too quickly.  On second thought,
> `convert-standard-filename' is something to be used on files that are
> supposed to have names following certain standards, like files
> containing user profile data, and not on default-directory.

convert-standard-filename is for files whose names are hard-coded in
Emacs Lisp sources, and for which we know that certain losing
filesystems might disallow them.  Examples include ".emacs",
".emacs_case_exceptions", etc.