From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:30:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (command-line-normalize-file-name):
X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~1157
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aeab376f9f294b014c18a04ddd8978e2fc35bb9d;p=emacs.git

(command-line-normalize-file-name):
Don't collapse // at start of file name.
---

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index b21fc83eebd..0365b785495 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -911,7 +911,9 @@ Type \\[describe-distribution] for information on getting the latest version."))
 
 (defun command-line-normalize-file-name (file)
   "Collapse multiple slashes to one, to handle non-Emacs file names."
-  (while (string-match "//+" file)
+  ;; Use arg 1 so that we don't collapse // at the start of the file name.
+  ;; That is significant on some systems.
+  (while (string-match "//+" file 1)
     (setq file (replace-match "/" t t file)))
   file)