[Info-vax] Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-23, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
>
> Or you use an alias like
> bash-4.3$ alias emacs="/BLD_ROOT/local/bin/emacs-21_2 -map 
> 'BLD_ROOT:[local.bin]emacs-21_2.dump'"
>

Thanks Hans.

> It seems that emacs under GNV has a problem to open files in a 
> subdirectory in a relative path without the prefix of the current directory:
>
> bash-4.3$ emacs src/main.c
> fails to load the file but
> bash-4.3$ emacs ./src/main.c
> works as expected (as well as a runemacs [.src]main.c).
>
> I didn't try to figure out what causes this behavior. Also, I didn't run 
> more tests, so there may be more or other problems.

I wonder if bash is doing something unusual during filename
expansion.

Simon.

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