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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:33:00 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> CC:  address@hidden
> >
> > I heard what you said, and I obviously disagree that it's a clear bug.
> > It is no more a bug than the fact that Emacs uses only forward slashes
> > in file-name completion in the minibuffer, even on Windows.
> >
> > In other words, you are arguing for a new feature.  While I'm not
> > opposed to having such a feature, now is not the time to introduce new
> > features.
> >   
> New feature? I think that things work correctly is hopefully not a new 
> feature in Emacs ;-)

It's a new feature because it will have to be customizable.  I don't
want my shell buffers auto-complete with backslashes, and I'm sure I'm
not the only one.

>         C:\myecvs> dir bld/emacs<RET>
>         dir bld/emacs
>         Invalid switch - "emacs".

That's a different problem, because I could type the full command
"dir foo/bar" without using auto-completion, and it would still fail.
It could be solved in cmdproxy, for example.  If you have time to work
on this, please do.

> It is a bug and I offered a solution which I think is safe.

It isn't safe enough for this time.

> The pretest is for fixing bugs.

Only those that don't run the risk of introducing more complex bugs.