From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 11348@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11348: 24.0.95; TAB-completion in shell-command produces d:\/foo on MS-Windows
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 21:15:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mx5n6ceu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr4uzdemc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 11348@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 13:59:43 -0400
>
> This said, based on your description, the problem may simply come from
> shell.el's setting of pcomplete-arg-quote-list which tells pcomplete
> that \ is an escape char.
>
> I.e. does the patch below fix the problem?
No, I still get "d:\/gnu/".
> > This works better, it produces "cd d:\gnu/ ", which is ugly, but
> > correct.
>
> Which part is ugly? The \, the /, or the use of a mix of them?
The mix.
> > Perhaps Stefan could at some point add some documentation about the
> > internals, that would allow mere mortals such as myself debug the
> > completion code.
>
> I'd love to, but I'm much too deeply in it to know what needs more
> documentation, so fire away your questions and I'll reply with
> comments&docstrings.
A useful beginning would be some overview of the design and
description of the control and data flow in several popular use-cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-04 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 11:09 bug#11348: 24.0.95; TAB-completion in shell-command produces d:\/foo on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 14:29 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-04 15:36 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 15:46 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-04 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-05-04 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 0:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-05 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 4:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-07 8:01 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-07 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-07 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-07 16:11 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-08 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-08 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-09 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-09 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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