From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:36:15 +0100 Message-ID: <85fyc3oiio.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20061124054526.72239.qmail@web62511.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <45679B84.3080108@student.lu.se> <49879.128.165.123.18.1164655008.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <85slg4ou2m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164717435 17872 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2006 12:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 28 13:37:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp2Cy-0006ub-AO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:37:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp2Cx-0005J6-Rq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp2CD-0004t0-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp2CB-0004sE-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gp2CB-0004sB-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.7.152.119] (helo=mxout02.versatel.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gp2CB-0000b3-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx02.versatel.de (mx01.versatel.de [212.7.146.1]) by mxout02.versatel.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kASCaHnP014051; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:36:17 +0100 Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (i53879488.versanet.de [83.135.148.136]) by mx02.versatel.de (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kASCaHsN023754; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:36:17 +0100 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7D6621C29846; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:36:15 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue\, 28 Nov 2006 12\:59\:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) 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:62929 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 11/28/06, David Kastrup wrote: > >> There does not happen to be a system call or >> something which would make them absolute? > > Not a direct system call. In fact, IIRC Windows does not have the > concept of multiple default directories, just one default directory > for each process. It's the CMD shell the one remembering the last > directory (I was going to write "path", but I felt Richard's gaze, out > of nowhere :-) in each visited drive. How will an application other than CMD then interpret "A:whatever" ? Always relative to the root of A: ? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum