Re: (concat "/dir/name/" "foo") --> (expand-file-name "foo" "/dir/name/")

["Daniel Pittman" <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> wrote:

>>>>>> "PJ" == Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> 
>  PJ> In that case, expand-file-name won't necessarily give you the
>  PJ> file name you want.
> 
> I don't understand this.  It sounds like cause for a bug report.
> 
>  PJ> Handlers aren't involved until I/O is attempted, AFAIK.
> 
> I believe the operations listed under Info (elisp)Magic File Names
> accurately reflect the code.  If not, please make a bug report.
> 
> [I can speak for Emacs 20 and Emacs 21 development code.  I recall
> that XEmacs appeared to have some problems connected with file name
> handlers, but I don't recall what they are.]

I don't know of any particular issues with XEmacs vs filename handlers,
and have worked in the area. If you do happen to find what they are,
please let me know.

        Daniel

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