Subject: bug#7617: 24.0.50; `expand-file-name': removal of slashes

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:40:15 +0100

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> IOW, the question here is about the purpose of `expand*'.

Returning a canonicalized file name, as documented.

> The behavior changed from Emacs 20 to 21, with apparently no record of
> why.

It's an obvious bug fix.

Andreas.

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