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Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:06:17 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

>> It could, but it doesn't want to.  In Emacs, the canonical directory
>> separator is / (although \ is made to work as well under w32, for obvious
>> interoperability reasons).
> You make it sound like / and \ both work in Windows, but they don't:

They do if you use another shell ;-)
(IIUC the API-level functions in w32 understand / just fine, it's only
the/some shells which insist on using \ exclusively).

> If shell-mode could use backslash when completing on w32 it would be a
> lot more useful.

I'll let the w32 people decide.  I was just explaining the
current situation.


        Stefan




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