Re: emacs and SUBST command

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:05:54 -0700
> From: "Mickey Ferguson" <MFerguson@plantcml.com>
> 
>     SUBST t: C:\Temp
> 
> which is the usual and familiar way.  However, one can also use
> 
>     SUBST 1: C:\Temp
> 
> Both are valid.  However, within emacs if I try to reference a file that's in 
> C:\Temp, say, C:\Temp\Myfile.txt, by using the 1:\Myfile.txt notation, emacs 
> doesn't find the file.  It can't work with anything under the 1: "drive".

Emacs deliberately doesn't support this functionality.  It only
supports drive letters A-Z.  Supporting other characters would be a
real PITA, since remote file names and files in archives also use
colons.

Can you tell where this is a real problem?