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Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support


From: David Masterson
Subject: Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support
Date: 11 Oct 2001 10:03:19 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:

> Besides, you seem to be assuming that this will only be used in
> visiting files (otherwise I don't understand how can
> find-alternate-file help).  That assumption is probably wrong: Emacs
> has functions that deal with files but do not visit those files.
> For example, what about write-region?

Hmmm.  Good point.  I've never used write-region, so it didn't occur
to me.  I thought my idea would handle the _majority_ of cases for the
general Emacs user (Elisp programmers are another problem entirely).

> The shortcuts do indeed end in `.lnk', but the crucial detail you
> are missing is that they are not _referenced_ with that extension
> explicitly mentioned.  It's like program invocation: you type "foo
> RET", but expect `foo.exe' to be invoked.

> So I think any of the Emacs mechanisms which are based on file-name
> patterns will not be able to handle this.

Well, the issue of treating "file" as whichever of (file.lnk,
file.exe, file.bat, etc.) is appropriate is probably too much of a
change to the Emacs way.  Even Windows programs get confused if you
enter a filename without the extension and there are several to choose
from.  Some Windows programs will make assumptions (like Notepad will
assume .txt), but Emacs doesn't have to.

-- 
David Masterson                dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA



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