GNU bug report logs - #767
23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory

Previous Next

Full log

Message #65 received at 767 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 767 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:48:48 +0200

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.

No, but I do not understand now why the final forward slash was missing.

But of course it might also mean trouble that default-directory when you
start Emacs on w32 uses backslashes. Is there any reason not to change that?

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.