From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OS independent way to specify location of .emacs.d directory Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:59:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83ehepfrfz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878v4yt3q4.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365141602 3923 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2013 06:00:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 06:00:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 05 08:00:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNzhN-0001dy-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:00:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42342 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNzgy-0004is-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNzgk-0004gy-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNzgf-0002vi-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:59:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:33237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNzgf-0002vU-9V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKR00L00PWNMS00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:59:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKR00LSJPZJ34A0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:59:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90002 Archived-At: > From: "Ludwig, Mark" > 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.