Re: slash appended to tab so its two // at end

[alex xmb ratchev]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 7:30 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 7/19/23 1:44 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 12:57 PM Grisha Levit <grishalevit@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Also I think this is not a bug -- readline is asked to append a slash
> >> to directory names and it does so.
> >
> > It's easy enough to avoid printing the indicator slash if we just
> > printed a path already ending in a slash.  It's an improvement
> > cosmetically but I think correctness can be argued either way.
>
> It's cosmetic only. Multiple non-leading slashes in a pathname are
> equivalent to a single slash. The only exception is when there are
> exactly two leading slashes.
>

partly cosmetic
its not foo/ and foo/// will yield different paths

i just found it plain .. under the level ..

btw i didnt get the begin slashes story

greets

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