GNU bug report logs - #13296
24.2.91; Interpretation of Null CDPATH components is wrong.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:14:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.2.91

Fixed in version 24.2.92

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.2.91; Interpretation of Null CDPATH components is wrong.
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:12:48 -0500

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How to demonstrate the bug:
$ cd ~
$ /bin/pwd
/u/home
$ mkdir -p this/is/a/test
$ export CDPATH=:~
$ cd this/is/a/test
$ emacs -Q
launch 'eshell'
prompt should read "~/this/is/test $"
type "cd .." at the prompt.
prompt reads "/u $".and /bin/pwd results in "/u"

This is interpretation of CDPATH is not the same as that of BASH or of  of
EMACS prior to 24.2.91 that both treat NULL components of the colon
separated list of values as ".".  See, bash(1) discussions of CDPATH.

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bug#13296; Package emacs. (Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:49:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Charles Rendleman <carendle <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 13296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13296: 24.2.91;
	Interpretation of Null CDPATH components is wrong.
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:47:07 -0500

Charles Rendleman wrote:

> $ export CDPATH=:~
[...]
> This is interpretation of CDPATH is not the same as that of BASH or of  of
> EMACS prior to 24.2.91 that both treat NULL components of the colon
> separated list of values as ".".  See, bash(1) discussions of CDPATH.

This is due to the changes in http://debbugs.gnu.org/12351 .

Before:

(parse-colon-path ":~")    ->  (nil "~/")

After:

(parse-colon-path ":~")    -> ("~/")


We shouldn't be deleting nil from the result.
Reply sent to Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>:
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 13296-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13296: 24.2.91;
	Interpretation of Null CDPATH components is wrong.
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:20:52 -0500

Version: 24.2.92

Fixed in emacs-24 branch.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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