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Re: Why does (file-exists-p "") return t?


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Why does (file-exists-p "") return t?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 07:20:01 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21)

* Edgar Vincent <e-v@posteo.net> [2023-02-10 00:11]:
> I didn’t know that file-exists-p used expand-file-name, but it does seem 
> obvious.

To avoid the problem maybe you should use `expand-file-name' before
you check it with `file-exists-p'

As otherwise you may check the wrong path.

-- 
Jean

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