[10672] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4H: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 12 23:15:47 1993
From: cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 23:15:42 EDT
System name: sullius-secundus
Type and version: KN02ca 7.4H (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
emacs /source/../build/@sys/INSTLOG_0704
What's wrong:
emacs is too smart for my own good.
It decides the path
/foo/../bar/baz
must reduce to
/bar/baz
which of course isn't true a lot of the time.
What should have happened:
It should be dumber. Or smarter. Either way. No, actually,
it should be dumber. Everything else is dumb enough to
leave the path alone and therefore do the right thing.
I don't need the thing wasting time trying to figure out
where the symlinks lead twice.
I like my computers fast and dumb. Intelligence is not their
job, nor are they well suited for the task.
Disposition of user:
Extremely irritated.
Thought for the evening:
If this were a sun, my xterm would die now.
