From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 21:45:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83d4akda5p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hbzzs7ax.fsf@gmail.com> <8363gfe2r1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241721961 12065 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2009 18:46:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 18:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Bela=EFche?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 07 20:45:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M28bO-00073h-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 20:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M28bO-00080X-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M28bI-00080O-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M28bH-00080C-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43022 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M28bH-000809-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:56974) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M28bG-0006Ju-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 14:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KJA00I00EOYBJ00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 21:45:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.73.80]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KJA000GLERJTRQ0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Thu, 07 May 2009 21:45:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110757 Archived-At: > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Bela=EFche?= > Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:04:38 +0200 > Cc: karl@freefriends.org > > 2) On the issue of supporting older versions of Window: I am afraid that this is not possible if you want a DOS command. I don't think that there is any simple way to extract the dirname with a one-liner command in older DOS versions. Perhaps you could simply chdir to that directory when running the command. Then there would be no need to name the directory explicitly. But I didn't try that, so I may be missing something. > I am not sure how to disntiguish Windows version from within Emacs. You can look at the value of `system-configuration'.