>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Stephen> What do you mean by "fixing"? I know what _I_ like, but
Stephen> treating "./bar" as relative to `default-directory' but
Stephen> "foo/bar" as relative to the path is pretty inconsistent.
ms> I personally don't think so. As this discussion showed, it
ms> depends on your intuition whether "." is absolute or relative.
Negotiate with Martin. I consider my intuition here unreliable, and
can't afford time to think carefully; I abstain. Status quo wins
ties. Or we can revisit it after the release, and I _will_ think
about it then.
ms> This one:
ms> (locate-file "/usr/bin/ls" '())
ms> nil
Unless someone objects, swat it, s'il vous plait. I've been burned by
that one.
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