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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: zvrba.external@zvrba.net, 8132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with /
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:42:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyfl7w1k.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831v2qzofj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:27:28 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>> zvrba.external@zvrba.net, 8132@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:02:23 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > It could be easier to make a wrapper around the file completion, which
>> > would simply convert all / into \ when the result is inserted into the
>> > shell buffer.  That's because working with / is very basic in
>> > file-name completion, and reaches deep into the code and the
>> > primitives it uses.
>> 
>> It should respect remote file names. A conversion to \ is not helpful
>> for them.
>
> Sorry, I'm not following: what remote file names?  We are talking
> about "M-x shell" with the stock Windows shell.  That shell doesn't
> support remote file names at all.  What am I missing?

You have the following call sequence:

shell -> make-comint-in-buffer -> comint-exec -> comint-exec-1 -> start-file-process

If default-directory is remote, start-file-process invokes Tramp.

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-02  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-27 13:27 bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with / Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28  3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-28 14:59   ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 15:47     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-28 17:47       ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 17:57         ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-28 22:05           ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 22:32             ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-28 18:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-28 22:10       ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 23:04       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01  3:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01  4:48           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01  7:06           ` zvrba
2011-03-01  9:02           ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-01 18:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02  8:42               ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2011-03-02 18:41                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-03  9:31                   ` Michael Albinus

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