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Re: Please confirm this file-name-directory behavior
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Please confirm this file-name-directory behavior |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:33:16 +0300 |
> From: Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:24 -0000
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> I am running Emacs 22.1.1 on Windows XP, and I observe that file-name-
> directory does not check whether the actual directory exists. It just
> parses the string argument for the directory & file parts.
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> I am not complaining about it not checking whether the directory
> exists, I just want to confirm that this behavior is by design.
It's by design. file-name-directory is driven by syntax of file
names, not by whether files or directories exist.