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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-24, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 09:00 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2016-10-23, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I don't think so. This is just a VMS version of emacs using some VMS
> specific code for mapping the dump (or map) file and maybe for
> completing pathnames. Absolute paths also work as expected.
>

What I was thinking was more that bash does filename expansion
on wildcard specifications before passing the parsed command line
to the program. As such, I was wondering if something funny was
getting stuffed into argv[] in the first example as a result of
bash getting something wrong even though the first example isn't
a wildcard.

Simon.

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