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Re: Please confirm this file-name-directory behavior


From: Sven Joachim
Subject: Re: Please confirm this file-name-directory behavior
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:01:35 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com> writes:

> 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.

That's correct.

> I am not complaining about it not checking whether the directory
> exists, I just want to confirm that this behavior is by design.

It is by design, also in other file-name-* functions.

Sven


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