From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Copley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24387: 25.1.50; w32-convert-standard-filenames no longer works Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:52:32 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473242060 11657 195.159.176.226 (7 Sep 2016 09:54:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:54:20 +0000 (UTC) To: 24387@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 11:54:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bhZYa-0002DK-4s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:54:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhZYY-0005OS-4k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=pAz7kQIKanbsTSmj2FPOFdfaV3k6epJNhyzEkZE48aQ=; b=BLZEBMS16DdoLJcoArOg2qXwf9uvjbYU4Ztuy7aw0SBkx57DfTPtZqMHlCKrjudVxK PAxzC4p26YA0pSLfVDzoXdtswtWpOVpa23vF6NenRDbd/361XbUgfCDoOhmvccVeyBdV 95g9rfpOyCqa2o1R5ZWeR8Zyga++xxKz+6717fx/AehWuVVEDS4udRDIDGpj806uUOG4 ormnmbRD3EbTN6FVjO0R3v3EBCjMyceKzplzOPeR9RCvLWOdZsrjn9X5g1piWPAwT8Rj inP+OhEeYIHF1epYamk9kE10tsFELh02LH1l+W5rqmhUuFVZagkggs0zqmrzhl0DXWAN IkLQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwPvDBC6iImKdKff9qBI+PVqMrSayRBnaM87Dr7YZADH+wAcxGmN5AfeX13hSSEuqSOyVm14YOcWB5fhWQ== X-Received: by 10.31.194.3 with SMTP id s3mr20651329vkf.95.1473241982989; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 02:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.176.65.8 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Sep 2016 02:52:32 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:123051 Archived-At: Hi Eli, `convert-standard-filename' on Windows was changed in this commit: commit 438b98e5b70c55129453870b870a139c4a4a77fd Author: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon Apr 25 11:50:37 2016 +0300 Don't mirror slashes in convert-standard-filename on MS-Windows * lisp/w32-fns.el (w32-convert-standard-filename): Don't mirror slashes into backslashes. This avoids producing ugly file names, and is deemed no longer necessary, and should certainly be unrelated to which shell is in use. I for one /did/ use filenames created by this function in shell commands. It was explicitly documented that it would work, and it still is (see the docstring for `convert-standard-filename'). Now I need to take time out to roll my own version and review all my callers (and, because I'm a nice person and like to help, file a bug report and expose myself to the ensuing derision :) ). Please will you change it back? If not, when that docstring gets fixed, can it document what people should use instead?