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url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>
To: 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:09:08 -0600

On 9/21/11 7:14 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:07, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> If you say so ;-)
>
> Well,
>
>> Yes, but please remember if you make that interpretation (which I hope
>> is the correct one) then "c:/some/file.txt" is an absolute local file
>> name in URL file name syntax.
>
> This is what the RFC says. I even quoted it.
>
>> So if we hold on to that interpretation then maybe we should say (and
>> document ;-) that url-filename returns such a file name
>
> This I didn't say (but any change or unexpected behavior should be documented).
>
>> and that it
>> needs to be translated to the actually used systems file syntax to be
>> used there.
>
> I explicitly talked about (concat "/" (url-filename ...))

Don't you mean: (expand-file-name (url-filename ...) "/")

>> This would be an incompatible change from the current (faulty)
>> behaviour, but I think it would be the best.
>
> This is what I've been saying in pretty much every message from this thread.
>
> So yes, "I say so".
>
>      Juanma
>
>
>
>


-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

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