From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:24:31 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <456DDC1D.2030407@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164828341 22767 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 19:25:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 20:25:35 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 1GpV3Q-0001Kc-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:25:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpV3Q-00084W-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpV2s-0007yV-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpV2o-0007tz-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpV2n-0007tH-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:24:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.73] (helo=heller.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpV2m-0000gt-BJ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:24:32 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-11-159.inter.net.il [80.230.11.159]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BDG80045 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:24:28 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <456DDC1D.2030407@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:14:37 +0100) 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:63064 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:14:37 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman > CC: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com > > Did not my message get through? My suggestion was when setting > default-directory also set the working directory for the OS. That's a scary suggestion. For starters, it will have different effects on Windows 9x and the newer versions (since cwd is a global OS variable on Windows 9x). It might also affect subprocesses and other related aspects. I don't think we should even think about going that way. Like I said: let's postpone this for after the release.