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25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem

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From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 27982-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27982: 25.1.50;
 expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:43:51 +0200

Hi Eli,

Thanks for your help but let me close this.

I initially thought it was "obviously wrong", but it is not. I think the
wording is slightly misleading (e.g. "dirname" vs "dir-as-file-name"),
but nothing important.

Nicolas.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
>> Cc: 27982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:18:53 +0200
>>
>> Ok so now I'm saying that, with the suggestion in the docstring, output
>> will be different if "dirname" ends in a slash.
>
> Of course.  directory-file-name and file-name-directory look at the
> slashes, so having one more slash at the end changes everything.
> There's nothing new here.
>
> So where do we go from here, in the context of this bug report?  What
> would you propose to change, where, and why?
>
> Thanks.


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