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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 22:06:27 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
> 
>    The value of default-directory is now "~/".
> 
> If you remove the line, the value of default-directory is going to be
> whatever the value was in the buffer from which `locate' was invoked.
> (Which may not be that bad if nothing better is available on MS Windows.)
> 
> I do not see however why one should fail to make dired mode work as
> best as it can on those operating systems that support it, such as
> GNU/Linux and Unix.

Sorry, you lost me: what is that ``best support'' in dired that one
loses if the default-directory is not "/"?  And why cannot that
support work on all Emacs platforms?

> Maybe some other operating systems might have to be added to the
> '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin).

There's no need to have cygwin in that list, even if the other two
systems need to be ostracized, since Cygwin file names do start with a
slash.