Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Distributing variants just adds to confusion and wastes precious
> resources.  Therefore I think it should be done only if you have a
> very good reason, and it certainly shouldn't be a knee-jerk reaction
> to any disagreement.


Yes, it adds to the confusion. I am aware of that and tries to tell that 
as clearly as possible on my web pages. If you have time and interest 
you can suggest improvements to this.

The things I have added in my patches are things that I think should go 
into emacs later. We might prefer slightly different coding but that is 
of very minor importance to many. I code for the functionality and try 
to make the code clear and structured.

I use this patches myself and I even doubt I would be using Emacs 
without some of them.

Of course we have different views of things sometimes, but that does not 
change my mind unless you can convince me. It is not a big problem for 
me if we disagree and I try not to act because of that. However I try to 
make my view clear and offer alternatives based on my view - with all 
efforts I think are reasonable to minimize the patches.


> Solving this in both Emacs and emacsclient is a non-trivial job that
> should not be undertaken now.  I hope you agree that solving it _only_
> in emacsclient is a bad idea.


I think we should solve it for emacsclient now because it is more 
integrated with the w32 UI, but let it be for Emacs until after the 
release. I see no problems with that.

However I believe also that we should try to solve the problems with bad 
filenames in both Emacs and Emacsclient now. This should not be to 
problematic I guess. It is only about testing for certain characters in 
the names. The main difficulty is perhaps what to do when a file name 
contains bad characters.