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23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory

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Message #55 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:19:15 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:34:10 -0400
> Cc: 767 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> 
> > If on w32 default-directory is something like c:\top\sub then the
> 
> Then it's a bug.  C-h v default-directory says:
> 
>    Name of default directory of current buffer.  Should end with slash.
>    To interactively change the default directory, use command `cd'.
> 
> So if it doesn't end in slash, we have a problem.

It does end in a slash on my machine (also on MS-Windows).

I think the original problem is that it uses backslashes instead of
forward slashes.

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