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Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:07:45 +0200

> From: Peter Lee <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:03:24 -0500
> 
>     Eli> Also, what is the value of default-directory local to the
>     Eli> *Locate* buffer?
> 
> M-: (message default-directory) RET returned "/" in the Locate buffer.

Sounds like a bug to me: it should have been set to the directory
where `locate' was run, and should have included a drive letter, since
this is MS-Windows.

Could you try modifying locate.el to bind default-directory to
something sensible in the *Locate* buffer, and see if that helps?




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