Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/06/25/22:09:39
But why he asks.... I have only recently gotten Demacs running (uEmacs
finally ran out steam....), so I don't claim to be an expert.... Why
does emacs throw everything up to the // away??? P'haps just making the
path name /c:src/djgpp or /c:/src/djgpp would be sufficient....
When Emacs is reading a file name in the minibuffer it usually inserts
as default input the default directory for the current buffer - which
includes a trailing '/'. If this path is not what you want you can
type a '/' at this point and everything before the '/' you typed will
be ignored. This is a convenience feature for rapidly throwing away the
default directory when it isn't what you want. See read-file-name in
minibuf.el for the implementation.
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