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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OS independent way to specify location of .emacs.d directory
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:59:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ehepfrfz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1ABCB10C2A@USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com>

> From: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:04:25 +0000
> 
> You can even use forward slashes as file path arguments to some external 
> commands in command shells.  You can never use them in internal commands.

Not entirely true, the last sentence.  Many commands internal to
cmd.exe will accept file names with forward slashes, especially if
they are quoted.  E.g., 'cd' accepts them even without quotes.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-05  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.23457.1365033700.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-04-04  0:20 ` OS independent way to specify location of .emacs.d directory Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 20:56   ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-04-04 21:04     ` Ludwig, Mark
2013-04-05  5:59       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-05 13:33         ` Ludwig, Mark
2013-04-04  0:01 Joe Riel
2013-04-04  0:19 ` Steven Degutis
2013-04-04  2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii

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