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25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component

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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
To: 24471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24471: 25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:21:54 +0200

Glenn Morris writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Another issue is whether we want to filter out nil or leave it alone
>> (i.e. change the function used by mapcar so it skips nil elements)?
>> Any thoughts on this one?
>
> Please just replace nil elements with ".".

The code in parse-colon-path mentions that a nil element is supposed to
be treated as "default-directory".  This is wrong at least for PATH and
POSIX, so maybe there should be some more consideration on what exactly
the purpose of nil elements should be.


Regards,
Achim.
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