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

[Luc Teirlinck]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

   > How did you test this?

   Simply by using the unaltered locate.el, which does, as you mentioned:

There seems to be some confusion here.

My claim was that if one tries to set default-directory to something
_different_ from "/" in `locate-mode' (and there have been two
different proposals to do so), then that causes trouble for `i' and
probably for other commands as well.  From my original message:

   Eli Zaretskii wrote:

      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?

   For instance, if one of the listed files is a directory, then using
   `i' to insert that directory will only work if the default directory
   is "/'.

I answered the first of your two questions in the above quote.  All I
can do about the second part is make wild guesses, since I can not
test anything out on platforms other than GNU\Linux, and, partly, Solaris. 

Is your current position that "/" is the correct value for MS Windows
and hence should not be changed?

Sincerely,

Luc.