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Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect

From: Chris Moore
Subject: Re: abbreviate-file-name on Windows seems incorrect
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:07:17 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) 
Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> (expand-file-name "~/foo")
> "c:/Projects/foo"
>
> (abbreviate-file-name "c:\\Projects\\foo")
> "c:\\Projects\\foo"

abbreviate-file-name is using string-match to see check whether
"c:\\Projects\\foo" matches the regexp "^c:/Projects\\(/\\|\\`\\)".
It doesn't, so no abbreviation happens.

It's the old MS-DOG confusion between \ and / again.
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