Gary Johnson wrote:
> The help entry for 'directory' doesn't say anything about the colon
> following the drive letter in the swap file name being replaced by
> a percent sign.
>
> I propose that the sentence describing the swap file name
> construction be changed from
>
> - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//",
> the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file
> with all path separators substituted to percent '%' signs.
>
> to
>
> - For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//",
> the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file
> with the colon following the drive letter on Win32 and all path
> separators replaced by percent '%' signs.
>
> I also improved the grammar. A patch based on 8.2.1462 is attached.
Thanks. Starting the sentence mentioning the colon for Win32 makes it a
bit long. Since the colon is a specific instance of the path separator,
I think it reads a bit easier like this:
- For Unix and Win32, if a directory ends in two path separators "//",
the swap file name will be built from the complete path to the file
with all path separators replaced by percent '%' signs (including
the colon following the drive letter on Win32). This will ensure
file name uniqueness in the preserve directory.
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