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

[LENNART BORGMAN]

From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:19 pm
Subject: Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > cmdproxy is IMO the _only_ level where this should be done
> 
> I think it is wrong to do this in cmdproxy, as cmdproxy has no 
> knowledge 
> about what is a filename, and what is a literal string that must 
> be 
> passed to the command  untouched.
> The right place to do this is when completing file names, since we 
> know 
> then that we are dealing with a file name. We should never change 
> what 
> the user has manually typed.


Yepp. That is what I wrote too.