GNU bug report logs - #62732
29.0.60; uniquify-trailing-separator-p affects any buffer whose name matches a dir in CWD

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Message #86 received at 62732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, 62732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62732: 29.0.60; uniquify-trailing-separator-p affects any
 buffer whose name matches a dir in CWD
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:55:23 -0400

>> No, `create-file-buffer` used to throw away the trailing slash, rather
>> than make use of this information.

[ And instead uniquify had to try and recover that information by checking
  the file-system.  ]

>> Not sure why Dired bothered to remove the tailing slash when calling
>> it, maybe because a long time ago `create-file-buffer` had a bug if
>> the name had a trailing slash.
> So why the need for the change in dired.el?

Because we do want Dired to tell `create-file-buffer` that this is
a directory and it should thus obey `uniquify-trailing-separator-p`.

Otherwise `uniquify-trailing-separator-p` would end up never used (since
Dired is AFAIK the only package that creates "directory file buffers").


        Stefan

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