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: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:39:31 +0100 Message-ID: <85irgycaa4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20061124054526.72239.qmail@web62511.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <85fyc3oiio.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854psjoh67.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r6vnmz3s.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <857ixfkyqu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <456CC2B4.3000003@student.lu.se> <456CD9A7.5010006@student.lu.se> <456D44EE.2080906@student.lu.se> <85mz6ah8y6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854psidqll.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 1164829366 26342 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 19:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 20:42:44 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 1GpVK1-0004i2-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpVK1-0006On-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpVHi-0004e1-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpVHg-0004cf-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpVHg-0004ca-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.7.152.120] (helo=mxout03.versatel.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpVHW-0005eC-59; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mx01.versatel.de (mx01.versatel.de [212.7.146.1]) by mxout03.versatel.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kATJdZuA007328; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:39:35 +0100 Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (i5387BDBE.versanet.de [83.135.189.190]) by mx01.versatel.de (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kATJdZrh025859; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:39:35 +0100 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0CB591C29846; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:39:31 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 29 Nov 2006 21\:19\:52 +0200") 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:63070 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: David Kastrup >> 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum