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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: zvrba.external@zvrba.net, 8132@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with /
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:48:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrkj1m65.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sjv7mr5h.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:54:50 +0200")

>> Maybe the best way is for shell.el to burp or warn the user that she
>> would be better served by eshell.  But maybe file completion in shell.el
>> should be tweaked to not turn \ into / in that case.

> It could be easier to make a wrapper around the file completion, which
> would simply convert all / into \ when the result is inserted into the
> shell buffer.

Yes, that's more or less what I meant.

> That's because working with / is very basic in file-name completion,
> and reaches deep into the code and the primitives it uses.

Yes, I know ;-)


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01  4:48 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
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 [this message]
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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