|
From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#64102: 28.2; fails to find pathname with a sub dir as symlink and with parent dir ('..') |
Date: | Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:03:59 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 |
On 2023-06-18 01:53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Paul, any comments or ideas?
Emacs's behavior is well-documented and longstanding. It's also wrong, in that it disagrees with almost every other program and it therefore confuses users, particularly non-experts.
One possible way out would be to add a user-settable flag to select the longstanding Emacs behavior, or the behavior of most other programs. We could document that the default might change in the future. Of course this approach would have its own problems.
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |