schwartz@psuvax1.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz) (02/10/88)
[In the matter of GNU emacs 18.47] If one has an info file in a particular directory, what is the preferred means of reading it? After much effort I conclude that the only thing to do is something like "g(~/x/y/z/w)Top", that is to say supply an absolute pathname or a tilde relative pathname. Is there any reason that "g(./w)Top" shouldn't work, other than that that's the way it is? Shouldn't "." have paramount meaning rather than be ignored by expand-file-name or whatever lisp beastie that is responsible for this? Similarly, if you are in a directory /a/b/ where you have execute but not read permission on /a, emacs will not be able to read any files in /a/b since it demands on expanding "." into "/a/b/". I think this is a design flaw.... Am I wrong?