GNU bug report logs - #24057
25.1.50; ffap interprets comments beginning with "//" as file path

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 23:01:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 7229, 8990

Found in versions 23.1, 23.3, 25.1.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24057 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24057: 25.1.50; ffap interprets comments beginning with "//" as file path
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:02:36 -0400

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>>  Did you try this on some system where "//tmp" is a valid file name,
>>  which is different from "/tmp"?
> You need to be on a system that supports that.  Windows is one of
> them; not sure if there are any others left nowadays.

How does it work?

C:\Users\npostavs>echo foo > //tmp
The specified path is invalid.

In Emacs:

Saving file //tmp...
Directory `//' does not exist; create? (y or n) y
basic-save-buffer-2: //: no such directory

This is on a newly-upgraded-to-Windows-10 box, Emacs 24.5
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 119 days ago.

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