Subject: bug#21931: 25.0.50; behaviour of read-directory-name with double slashes

From: John Wiegley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:19:27 -0800

>>>>> Nicolas Richard <[email-masked]> writes:

> ("/tmp/src/" "/" "src/" "/" "/src/" "/")
> Is this intended ?

What list were you expecting to see? "//" has always meant "start at root" to
mean, ignoring whatever comes prior. This is how C-x C-f works, and it means
you don't have to delete any existing default text in order to begin at root.

John