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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs and SUBST command
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:24:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubqdgfis9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C835362391A2CF4F84E985842A0751870A346C98@maui.peinet.peinc.com> (MFerguson@plantcml.com)

> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:05:54 -0700
> From: "Mickey Ferguson" <MFerguson@plantcml.com>
> 
>     SUBST t: C:\Temp
> 
> which is the usual and familiar way.  However, one can also use
> 
>     SUBST 1: C:\Temp
> 
> Both are valid.  However, within emacs if I try to reference a file that's in C:\Temp, say, C:\Temp\Myfile.txt, by using the 1:\Myfile.txt notation, emacs doesn't find the file.  It can't work with anything under the 1: "drive".

Emacs deliberately doesn't support this functionality.  It only
supports drive letters A-Z.  Supporting other characters would be a
real PITA, since remote file names and files in archives also use
colons.

Can you tell where this is a real problem?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-09 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-09 18:05 emacs and SUBST command Mickey Ferguson
2007-08-09 22:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.4588.1186684089.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-09 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier

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