Re: 900276502f..: Paul Eggert 2018-11-13 Act like POSIX sh if $HOME is relative

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:29:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > > Setting HOME="z:" says “Whichever is the current directory on drive Z
> > 
> > Emacs doesn't support drive-relative file names on Windows.  It never
> > did.  It always interpreted "x:" as the root directory on drive x.
> 
> Whatever gets decided wrt this bug report, please ensure
> that the Emacs docs make clear what the behavior is.
> 
> In particular, let's tell users that "Emacs doesn't
> support drive-relative file names on Windows."  So,
> e.g., it interprets "x:" as the root directory on
> drive x.

We didn't explain this subtlety before, and I don't see why explain it
now.  It's a corner use case (I'd actually consider it a bug in the
user configuration).  Since there's no change in behavior here, we
don't need to change anything in the documentation.