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

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:16:42 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > CC:  address@hidden
> >     
> > > I really don't think we should try to open this can of worms now.
> > > Let's wait until after the release.
> > >       
> > As I said this is clearly a bug.
> >     
>
> 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 ;-)

    emacs -Q
    M-x shell
       C:\myecvs> dir b<TAB>
       C:\myecvs> dir bld/<E><TAB>
       C:\myecvs> dir bld/emacs<RET>
       dir bld/emacs
       Invalid switch - "emacs".
       C:\myecvs>

Maybe you believed that this worked since very similar things actually 
do work. It is a bug and I offered a solution which I think is safe.

> I believe I already have commented on it, see the citation from my
> original message above: I don't want us to mess with this so close to
> a release.
>   

The pretest is for fixing bugs.

>   
> > What do you think can go wrong?
> >     
>
> Everything.  As you yourself point out, the situation with w32 shells
> is complicated and fragile.  What else should be said to convince you
> that now is not the time to mess with it?
>   

Can you then please look at the patch again and tell more specific what 
you think can go wrong?

>   
> > I will add the above to my patched version, as usual.
> >     
>
> Sigh...  That's how the XEmacs fork started, you know...
>   

Yes, and I was not here then. Now instead I am arguing for correcting 
the bugs. Please excuse me if I am not the really careful type sometimes.