GNU bug report logs - #6339
url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 02:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #116 received at 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers <at> gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:30:46 +0200

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 16:24, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> This is a general url-parsing function, changing this to not return
> the leading / on the file portion of the url will break every other user
> of this function.

Only the ones that incorrectly assume that the slash is part of the
path. The ones that use expand-file-name, as Kevin pointed out, will
continue to work.

> This needs to be done for file URLs only

Perhaps, but for non-file URLs, the slash isn't part of the path
either. That's what the RFCs say.

> and be system-dependent.

That's a hack.

    Juanma
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