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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2009-10-01 03:34:04 +0000
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2009-10-01 03:34:04 +0000
commit7201bfbb317110daf459bb2d201fbb549e9aa50e (patch)
treef30022dd135cdbec057f0706be957bc653c2a3d7 /lisp/files.el
parentcf885595142fefb8a39fc16827c780225833b692 (diff)
downloademacs-7201bfbb317110daf459bb2d201fbb549e9aa50e.tar.gz
(cd-absolute): Don't abbreviate-file-name (bug#4599).
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index 3fde2812f0c..a7eac5fb63e 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -648,7 +648,12 @@ Directories are separated by occurrences of `path-separator'
;; Put the name into directory syntax now,
;; because otherwise expand-file-name may give some bad results.
(setq dir (file-name-as-directory dir))
- (setq dir (abbreviate-file-name (expand-file-name dir)))
+ ;; We used to additionally call abbreviate-file-name here, for an
+ ;; unknown reason. Problem is that most buffers are setup
+ ;; without going through cd-absolute and don't call
+ ;; abbreviate-file-name on their default-directory, so the few that
+ ;; do end up using a superficially different directory.
+ (setq dir (expand-file-name dir))
(if (not (file-directory-p dir))
(if (file-exists-p dir)
(error "%s is not a directory" dir)