From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu (Edward M. Reingold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: cd command on PC version (Emacs 20.7.1) Date: 18 Aug 2005 14:55:03 -0500 Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology Message-ID: <85mznfrpew.fsf@emr.cs.iit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124395410 28420 80.91.229.2 (18 Aug 2005 20:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 18 22:03:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5qaL-0002na-Jp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:01:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5qds-0003bQ-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:05:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news.illinois.net!news.iit.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: emr.cs.iit.edu Original-X-Trace: condor2.cns.iit.edu 1124394906 1432 216.47.142.126 (18 Aug 2005 19:55:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.iit.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:55:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133298 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28826 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28826 When I use C-c C-f in a LaTeX file, the *tex-shell* buffer is generated and a change directory command is given; on my PC it looks like c:\ed\bin>cd c:/ed/ cd c:/ed/ The system cannot find the path specified. The problem being that the slashes should be backslashes. Is there a simpel fix to this--the directory name is given by file-name-directory which should be smart enough to get it right for the PC! Do I have to write my own PC version, or has this been done? -- Professor Edward M. Reingold Email: reingold@iit.edu Chairman, Department of Computer Science Voice: (312) 567-3309 Illinois Institute of Technology Assistant: (312) 567-5152 Stuart Building Fax: (312) 567-5067 10 West 31st Street, Suite 236 Chicago, IL 60616-3729 U.S.A.