From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: himi@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, knagano@sodan.org
Subject: Re: init_buffer PWD fix
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:07:44 +0300 (IDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020424140517.8218B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204240713.g3O7DgO17536@sic.twinsun.com>
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:
> For example, I know that Windows sometimes plays funky games with
> letter case in file names. Suppose the user prefers one case for the
> directory name, and sets PWD accordingly. Won't the user be annoyed if
> Emacs uses the different case returned by getcwd?
>
> Similarly, suppose the Windows directory has a mangled file name that
> is returned by getcwd, but the user prefers the non-mangled name in
> $PWD.
All true and important, IMHO. Add the slash/backslash schizophreny to it
as well.
> Also, are permissions problems ever an issue on Windows platforms? In
> Unix and GNU/Linux, getcwd can fail because a parent directory is not
> readable, and that is an argument for preferring $PWD to getcwd. Is
> such a getcwd failure possible in Windows?
I don't think so, but I don't think we should hardwire such assumptions
into Emacs if we can do better by changing a single function in w32.c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-24 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-21 20:15 init_buffer PWD fix Keiichiro Nagano
2002-04-21 23:00 ` Keiichiro Nagano
2002-04-22 6:18 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-22 7:20 ` Keiichiro Nagano
2002-04-22 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
2002-04-22 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 7:01 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-22 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 7:22 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-22 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 23:21 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-23 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 21:21 ` Jason Rumney
2002-04-23 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23 6:14 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-23 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 17:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-24 18:14 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-23 17:45 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-24 6:52 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 7:13 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-24 7:45 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 10:30 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 17:13 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 18:25 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 19:19 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-24 19:41 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 19:59 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 20:21 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-24 20:41 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 21:01 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-24 21:23 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 21:35 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-25 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-25 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 16:47 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-24 17:55 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 10:38 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 7:55 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-04-24 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-24 10:31 ` MIYASHITA Hisashi
2002-04-24 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 7:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 6:49 ` Keiichiro Nagano
2002-04-22 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 8:26 ` Keiichiro Nagano
2002-04-22 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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