Merge pull request #12: Correctly handle Windows paths without drive letter

Author: xolox

README.md

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ from the source code of the miscellaneous scripts using the Python module
 <!-- Start of generated documentation -->
 
 The documentation of the 93 functions below was extracted from
-19 Vim scripts on July  6, 2014 at 18:28.
+19 Vim scripts on July  7, 2014 at 19:00.
 
 ### Asynchronous Vim script evaluation
 

autoload/xolox/misc.vim

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 " The version of my miscellaneous scripts.
 "
 " Author: Peter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>
-" Last Change: July 6, 2014
+" Last Change: July 7, 2014
 " URL: http://peterodding.com/code/vim/misc/
 
-let g:xolox#misc#version = '1.14'
+let g:xolox#misc#version = '1.14.1'

autoload/xolox/misc/path.vim

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 " Pathname manipulation functions.
 "
 " Author: Peter Odding <peter@peterodding.com>
-" Last Change: July 6, 2014
+" Last Change: July 7, 2014
 " URL: http://peterodding.com/code/vim/misc/
 
 let s:windows_compatible = xolox#misc#os#is_win()
@@ -72,8 +72,12 @@ function! xolox#misc#path#split(path) " {{{1
         " UNC pathname.
         return split(a:path, '\%>2c[\/]\+')
       else
-        " If it's not a UNC path we can simply split on slashes & backslashes.
-        return split(a:path, '[\/]\+')
+        " If it's not a UNC pathname we can simply split on slashes and
+        " backslashes, although we should preserve a leading slash (which
+        " denotes a pathname that is 'absolute to the current drive').
+        let absolute = (a:path =~ '^[\/]')
+        let segments = split(a:path, '[\/]\+')
+        return absolute ? insert(segments, a:path[0]) : segments
       endif
     else
       " Everything else is treated as UNIX.
@@ -135,6 +139,10 @@ function! xolox#misc#path#absolute(path) " {{{1
       " Also normalize the two leading "directory separators" (I'm not
       " sure what else to call them :-) in Windows UNC pathnames.
       let parts[0] = repeat(xolox#misc#path#directory_separator(), 2) . parts[0][2:]
+    elseif s:windows_compatible && parts[0] =~ '^[\/]$'
+      " If a pathname is relative to the current drive we should add
+      " the drive letter in order to make the pathname absolute.
+      let parts[0] = matchstr(getcwd(), '^\a:')
     endif
     return xolox#misc#path#join(parts)
   endif

doc/misc.txt

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ from the source code of the miscellaneous scripts using the Python module
 'vimdoctool.py' included in vim-tools [5].
 
 The documentation of the 93 functions below was extracted from 19 Vim scripts
-on July 6, 2014 at 18:28.
+on July 7, 2014 at 19:00.
 
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                                       *misc-asynchronous-vim-script-evaluation*