GNU bug report logs - #13296
24.2.91; Interpretation of Null CDPATH components is wrong.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:14:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.2.91

Fixed in version 24.2.92

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 13296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13296: 24.2.91;
	Interpretation of Null CDPATH components is wrong.
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:47:07 -0500

Charles Rendleman wrote:

> $ export CDPATH=:~
[...]
> This is interpretation of CDPATH is not the same as that of BASH or of  of
> EMACS prior to 24.2.91 that both treat NULL components of the colon
> separated list of values as ".".  See, bash(1) discussions of CDPATH.

This is due to the changes in http://debbugs.gnu.org/12351 .

Before:

(parse-colon-path ":~")    ->  (nil "~/")

After:

(parse-colon-path ":~")    -> ("~/")


We shouldn't be deleting nil from the result.
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 148 days ago.

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