Re: Change in expand-file-name in Emacs

Kai> Maybe you want to do this in XEmacs, too? Possibly. Why would such a path arise in practice? And why expand it via a file-handler? I thought normally those would be invoked later, inside the file handling functions. That is, expand-file-name is documented as a text rewriting function ("note that these simplifications are done without checking the resulting file names in the file system"). Suppose that you had /foo/bar/../../no-such-user＠host:~/x/y instead. Does your function DTRT (ie, ask host to look up ~no-such-user and signal a sensible error)? And is that _really_ TRT? (Ie, do we want to do such a lookup here---this would be very annoying if you had something like (setq my-global-home (expand-file-name "me＠home.net:~")) in init.el and you were offline.) Kai> Apologies if this message was inappropriate. Not at all, very welcome in fact. Except that in theory, since it's not a bug it might be better directed to xemacs-design. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.