Mercurial > emacs
changeset 17398:a5d9cbc4e2c5
(file-relative-name): Say correctly when the value is absolute.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:31:38 +0000 |
| parents | e1bc0ba41a50 |
| children | 04fc73bb3416 |
| files | lispref/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/files.texi Fri Apr 11 18:27:07 1997 +0000 +++ b/lispref/files.texi Fri Apr 11 18:31:38 1997 +0000 @@ -1561,8 +1561,13 @@ @defun file-relative-name filename directory This function does the inverse of expansion---it tries to return a relative name that is equivalent to @var{filename} when interpreted -relative to @var{directory}. (If such a relative name would be longer -than the absolute name, it returns the absolute name instead.) +relative to @var{directory}. + +On some operating systems, an absolute file name begins with a device +name. On such systems, @var{filename} has no relative equivalent based +on @var{directory} if they start with two different device names. In +this case, @code{file-relative-name} returns @var{filename} in absolute +form. @example (file-relative-name "/foo/bar" "/foo/")