Jason Franklin wrote:
> I wanted to fix this myself, but I'm not having any fun fighting with the
> Microsoft build tools. Hopefully, someone else has time to look into this
> issue.
>
> System: Windows 10
> Vim Version: 8.1.0001
>
> To reproduce:
>
> :echo fnamemodify('C:\__nodir__\__nofile__', ':.')
>
> You'll see that the "C:" is removed from the given path. If
> "C:\__nodir__\__nofile__" doesn't exist, the path should not be modified
> (because
> it's not relative to the working directory).
>
> See ":help filename-modifiers" for the description of how ":." should cause
> fnamemodify() to behave.
On MS-Windows the drive is sticky, thus \dir\path will use the current
drive. Thus the resulting path will work. We can adjust the help to
explain this.
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