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

[hb]

On 10/24/2016 09:28 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

It's VMS specific code in emacs. There is a function called
sys_translate_unix, which translates src/main.c (actually it is already
SRC/MAIN.C) to SRC:MAIN.C and ./src/main.c to [.SRC]MAIN.C.

That is, a "DEFINE SRC SYS$DISK:[.SRC]" (before running bash) also lets
emacs open the file. And, as you may have guessed, even on a DCL command
line you can pass a unix pathname to emacs - which fails for src/main.c
the same way.

No question, in a GNV version of emacs, this translation code should not
be called. For GNV one would use the latest emacs source code anyway,
which has all the VMS specific code removed.