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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Bourgneuf Francois <francois.bourgneuf@groupe-mma.fr>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hippie-expand show possible expansions for files
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:44:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <226109E4-0752-41D9-9E02-87558D8FF0EE@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A921A5AACA1A64F936C730FC1F8172101185F92@zw67246c.societe.mma.fr>


Am 07.11.2007 um 16:27 schrieb Bourgneuf Francois:

> I work under Windows and neither hippie-expand nor comint-dynamic- 
> complete could expand anything after c:\program Files

I am not working under Losedows and I am not writing a path with ``\ 
´´ (except I want to "escape" SPC or such in the path name) – and the  
latter makes an important difference! When you start with ``c:/program 
´´ comint-dynamic-complete will work and probably expand to ``C:/ 
Program\ Files/´´ ...

The reason is that backslash is used as a metacharacter that cannot  
stand for itself but gives other characters a particular meaning. So,  
when you write ``\p´´ it's not a sequence of ``\´´ and ``p´´ but a  
``backslashed p´´, some new entity.

--
Greetings

   Pete

Well done is better than well said.
                            -- Benjamin Franklin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-07 15:27 hippie-expand show possible expansions for files Bourgneuf Francois
2007-11-07 16:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-11-07 16:44 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2007-11-07 18:30   ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found] ` <mailman.3095.1194453900.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-07 21:19   ` Fabian Braennstroem
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-06 19:52 Fabian Braennstroem
2007-11-06 20:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found] ` <mailman.3056.1194379207.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-06 21:14   ` Fabian Braennstroem
2007-11-06 22:51     ` Thierry Volpiatto

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