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Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\" |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:06:17 -0500 |
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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
- Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Mats, 2006/12/18
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/18
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- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/18
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/18
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/19
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/19
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/19
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/19
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/19
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/20
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Lennart Borgman, 2006/12/20
- Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\", Stefan Monnier, 2006/12/20