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Diffstat (limited to 'src/fileio.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/fileio.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c index 886e5ebc411..c2b93a6bd8b 100644 --- a/src/fileio.c +++ b/src/fileio.c @@ -786,6 +786,9 @@ File name components that are `.' are removed, and so are file name components followed by `..', along with the `..' itself; note that these simplifications are done without checking the resulting file names in the file system. +Multiple consecutive slashes are collapsed into a single slash, +except at the beginning of the file name when they are significant (e.g., +UNC file names on MS-Windows.) An initial `~/' expands to your home directory. An initial `~USER/' expands to USER's home directory. See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'. @@ -793,7 +796,7 @@ See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'. For technical reasons, this function can return correct but non-intuitive results for the root directory; for instance, \(expand-file-name ".." "/") returns "/..". For this reason, use -(directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname)) to traverse a +\(directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname)) to traverse a filesystem tree, not (expand-file-name ".." dirname). */) (Lisp_Object name, Lisp_Object default_directory) { |