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bug#27982: 25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the fi
From: |
Nicolas Richard |
Subject: |
bug#27982: 25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:43:51 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 25.2.1 |
Hi Eli,
Thanks for your help but let me close this.
I initially thought it was "obviously wrong", but it is not. I think the
wording is slightly misleading (e.g. "dirname" vs "dir-as-file-name"),
but nothing important.
Nicolas.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
>> Cc: 27982@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:18:53 +0200
>>
>> Ok so now I'm saying that, with the suggestion in the docstring, output
>> will be different if "dirname" ends in a slash.
>
> Of course. directory-file-name and file-name-directory look at the
> slashes, so having one more slash at the end changes everything.
> There's nothing new here.
>
> So where do we go from here, in the context of this bug report? What
> would you propose to change, where, and why?
>
> Thanks.
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