From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Zeljko Vrba <zvrba.external@zvrba.net>
Cc: 8132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with /
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:34:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zkpgm2jn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6BB83B.20507@zvrba.net>
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:59:07 +0100
> From: Zeljko Vrba <zvrba.external@zvrba.net>
> Cc: 8132@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 2011-02-28 4:32 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> On Windows 7 (64-bit mod), run M-x shell, and try to do any filename
> >> expansion. All backslashes (even
> >> manually typed!) are converted to forward slashes upon tab-expansion.
> >
> > Yes, that's the expected behavior. Could you explain why it's
> > a problem?
> >
> It is a problem because commands built in to cmd.exe (and also external
> commands) interpret slash as a command-line switch character. So you
> end up with the following situation:
>
> --> comint expanded \ to / : del ../lpeg-0.10.2/re.html
> Invalid switch - "lpeg-0.10.2".
>
> In short, it breaks all native windows command-line tools.
Do you really need cmd.exe as your shell inside Emacs? What cmd
features do you depend on?
If you just need an interactive shell session within Emacs, I suggest
to try eshell instead. Its command work just fine with forward
slashes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-27 13:27 bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with / Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-28 14:59 ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 15:47 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-28 17:47 ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 17:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-28 22:05 ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 22:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-28 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-02-28 22:10 ` Zeljko Vrba
2011-02-28 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 3:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-01 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-01 7:06 ` zvrba
2011-03-01 9:02 ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-01 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02 8:42 ` Michael Albinus
2011-03-02 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-03 9:31 ` Michael Albinus
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