From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:21:17 +0100 Message-ID: <479B41DD.9090408@gmail.com> References: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4798C1BD.3030600@gmail.com> <4799F858.5070701@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201357323 30108 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2008 14:22:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:22:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 26 15:22:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JIlvI-0005eE-Md for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:22:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIlur-00019v-St for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:21:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIluZ-00016b-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIluY-00015V-3Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIluY-00015P-02 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIluU-0005IS-FD; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:21:30 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63145 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JIluS-00053V-5H; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:21:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080126-0, 2008-01-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JIluS-00053V-5H. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JIluS-00053V-5H 75ebd33956a52a9361b7762867ae1115 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50983 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Jan 26, 2008 9:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Really? It works for me with relative file names (of course, I used >> "-q" as well, so if someone changes directory in their .emacs, that >> could be a problem). > > You're right. But also of course if emacs client is used you do not know which directory Emacs has as default. So you have to tell Emacs which directory the file names are relative to. >> Or use forward slashes; nothing new here. > > That' a bit more difficult if the Emacs invocation is not typed into > the command line, but comes from another tool. A fairly common case could be that you do file name completion in cmd.exe. Then you will get backward slashes. Putting these inside "..." will make Emacs interpret them as they should escape the next character in the string.