FWIW, (getenv "PATH") doesn't yield trailing slashes for me with hamm and emacs20. So I don't think it's a simple hamm bug.
Sorry I'm not more helpful. miket On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:54:49PM -0500, David S. Zelinsky wrote: > > Ever since upgrading from bo to hamm, my PATH environment variable as seen > from inside emacs (with (getenv "PATH")) has a trailing / on each entry: > > /usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/X11R6/bin/ > > This doesn't really hurt, but has the annoying side-effect that if I type > `which foo' in an emacs shell buffer, I get a path name with a // in it: > > /usr/local/bin//foo > > Again, this doesn't really hurt anything (except for my sensibilities :< ), > although occasionally I want to take the resulting path, and paste it in a > find-file command to open the file -- but then emacs replaces `.*//' by `/', > and so looks for /foo instead of /usr/local/bin/foo. > > I would like to know what is causing this behavior. I grep'ed on PATH in all > the .el files in /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp, but didn't find anything that > sets PATH. I even made an attempt to find something relevant in the emacs > source code, to no avail. > > I didn't see this behavior until I switched to hamm, even though it's the same > (upstream) version of emacs. > > I also tried installing emacs20, and got the same results. > > Has anyone else seen this? Or have any idea what causes it? Or to whom to > report a bug? > > -- > David Zelinsky > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
