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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 22.1.90; `locate' and "C:" on Windows
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:30:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9abl884gh.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9hcgbdvav.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:31:36 +0100")

On Thu, Feb 14 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14 2008, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> You need to fix dired-insert-set-properties, which is somehow
>> assuming Unix filename conventions.  I notice that
>> dired-move-to-filename, which is called by
>> dired-insert-set-properties, has the following comment:
>>
>>   (defun dired-move-to-filename (&optional raise-error eol)
>>     "Move to the beginning of the filename on the current line.
>>   Return the position of the beginning of the filename, or nil if none found."
>>     ;; This is the UNIX version.
>>     ...
>>
>> Could someone who runs Emacs on Windows check to see if this function
>> needs to be fixed?  
>
> AFAIKS, it works fine for real dired buffers.  But for *Locate*
> buffers, we need a fix.
[...]
> You can probably reproduce with (setq locate-command "~/loc.sh")
> and...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ cat ~/loc.sh
> echo C:/blub/foobar.baz
> echo C:/abc/foobar.baz
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'll add it to "WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS (for 22.3 or later)." in
FOR-RELEASE:

,----
| ** `locate' and drive letter ("C:") on Windows
| For a recipe to reproduce the problem on GNU/Linux, see 
| <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/88971/focus=89106>
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-09 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 19:19 22.1.90; `locate' and "C:" on Windows Reiner Steib
2008-02-14  0:54 ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-14  1:51   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-14  8:25   ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-14 22:31   ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-09 12:30     ` Reiner Steib [this message]

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