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Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:28:06 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
"Järneström Jonas" <erajonj@ki.ericsson.se> writes:
|> In GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, X toolkit)
|> of Fri Mar 3 2000 on iris
|> configured using `configure --with-gcc --with-pop --with-x-toolkit=lucid
--bindir=/usr/local/bin --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec'
|>
|> (file-readable-p "") returns t.
|> Wouldnt nil be more appropriate since there is no filename to visit
|> (or whatever) despite the returning t?
|> Same behavior for its peers like file-exists-p an so on...
Emacs has (expand-file-name "") == (expand-file-name "."), so they are
operating on default-directory.
Andreas.
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- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, (continued)
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/02/28
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, David Kastrup, 2002/02/28
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/02/28
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Richard Stallman, 2002/02/28
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, David Kastrup, 2002/02/28
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/02/27
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, David Kastrup, 2002/02/27
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Stefan Monnier, 2002/02/28
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Kevin Rodgers, 2002/02/27
- Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string, Andreas Schwab, 2002/02/27
Re: file-readable-p returns t for empty string,
Andreas Schwab <=