Subject: Re: bug#27801: 26.0.50; Dired: Use relative file names when DIR-OR-LIST is a cons

From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:37:36 +0900

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> 2. If you call (dired (list DIR FILES)) and you want FILES
> to be relative rather than absolute, why can't you just
> (for your particular use case) use something like
> (dired (list DIR (mapcar #'dired-make-relative FILES)))?
> What am I missing?
Your right.  Thank you!
This is the proper way to do it: pass a list with
the relative names.