(or dir-or-list (setq dir-or-list default-directory))
;; This loses the distinction between "/foo/*/" and "/foo/*" that
;; some shells make:
- (let (dirname)
+ (let (dirname initially-was-dirname)
(if (consp dir-or-list)
(setq dirname (car dir-or-list))
(setq dirname dir-or-list))
+ (setq initially-was-dirname
+ (string= (file-name-as-directory dirname) dirname))
(setq dirname (abbreviate-file-name
(expand-file-name (directory-file-name dirname))))
(if find-file-visit-truename
(setq dirname (file-truename dirname)))
- (if (file-directory-p dirname)
- (setq dirname (file-name-as-directory dirname)))
+ ;; If the argument was syntactically a directory name not a file name,
+ ;; or if it happens to name a file that is a directory,
+ ;; convert it syntactically to a directory name.
+ ;; The reason for checking initially-was-dirname
+ ;; and not just file-directory-p
+ ;; is that file-directory-p is slow over ftp.
+ (if (or initially-was-dirname (file-directory-p dirname))
+ (setq dirname (file-name-as-directory dirname)))
(if (consp dir-or-list)
(setq dir-or-list (cons dirname (cdr dir-or-list)))
(setq dir-or-list dirname))