ffap and windows drive letters

ffap and windows drive letters

[Scott Otterson]

How can I get ffap to work with paths containing windows drive letters? 
Say I've got this path to an existing file in an emacs buffer

   d:\work\com\auto.cpp

If I put the cursor in the middle of "work" and type M-x ffap, the 
minibuffer will contain

   d:\work

rather than the full path to the file. If I put the cursor in the middle 
of "auto.cpp," the minibuffer will contain

   d:\

It looks to me like the function ffap-guesser in ffap.el needs to be 
fixed but I'm not sharp enough on elisp to do it.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: ffap and windows drive letters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:10:57 -0700
> From: Scott Otterson <scotto@u.washington.edu>
> 
> How can I get ffap to work with paths containing windows drive letters? 
> Say I've got this path to an existing file in an emacs buffer
> 
>    d:\work\com\auto.cpp
> 
> If I put the cursor in the middle of "work" and type M-x ffap, the 
> minibuffer will contain
> 
>    d:\work
> 
> rather than the full path to the file.

The drive letter is not the problem.  It looks like ffap.el doesn't
support Windows-style file names with backslashes.  Try
d:/work/com/auto.cpp instead, and you will see it will work.