Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:01:42 +0100
>> 
>> If you let the OS maintain its per-application idea of a
>> drive-relative cwd, cd _will_ affect more than the current buffer.  If
>> the current buffer is visiting C:/whatever/file.txt, and I did a cd to
>> C:/bubbles in a different buffer, should C-x C-f c:junk.txt in the
>> buffer of file.txt open C:/bubbles/junk.txt, C:/junk.txt or
>> C:/whatever/junk.txt?
>
> It should probably visit the file C:/whatever/junk.txt, since Emacs
> behaves as if the cwd changes whenever you switch buffers.

But if the buffer in question has its cwd on a different drive, it is
not possible in the buffer to assign meaning to a directory relative
to a different drive.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum