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Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:28:44 +0200

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:57:05 +0100
> 
> Emacs stores its idea of "relativeness" in `default-directory', a
> buffer-local variable.
> 
> It is not clear how one would attempt to model drive-relativeness on
> different drives than the one the buffer is in.

If the OS maintains the cwd on each drive, I see no problem to do
this.  Do you?

> It is possible to make `default-directory' point to a different
> drive from that of `buffer-file-name'.  Maintaining the old
> drive-relative position at the same time does not seem possible to
> do in a reasonably predictable way.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the scenario.  Can you show a
hypothetical series of commands that illustrates the problem(s)?




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