>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull
<turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
>>>> "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.
SJT> Negotiate with Martin. I consider my intuition here unreliable, and
SJT> can't afford time to think carefully; I abstain. Status quo wins
SJT> ties. Or we can revisit it after the release, and I _will_ think
SJT> about it then.
I didn't actually express an opinion, only cause for doubt.
In any case, changing this before 21.2 seems clearly wrong.
having "./foo" treated differently from "mule/foo" seems wrong.
Especially if GNU Emacs does it the way we do it currently, we
shouldn't change this behavior.