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 20:28:44 +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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164825506 12100 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 18:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:38:26 +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 19:38:22 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 1GpUJc-0008FM-Cq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:37:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUJb-0001aH-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUAq-0001Xt-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUAo-0001Vs-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:28:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUAo-0001Vi-Jd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GpUAm-0007Fi-PX; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:28:45 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-11-159.inter.net.il [80.230.11.159]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GKI22856 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:28:41 +0200 (IST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85mz6ah8y6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:57:05 +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:63052 Archived-At: > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:57:05 +0100 > > Emacs stores its idea of "relativeness" in `default-directory', a > buffer-local variable. > > It is not clear how one would attempt to model drive-relativeness on > different drives than the one the buffer is in. If the OS maintains the cwd on each drive, I see no problem to do this. Do you? > It is possible to make `default-directory' point to a different > drive from that of `buffer-file-name'. Maintaining the old > drive-relative position at the same time does not seem possible to > do in a reasonably predictable way. Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the scenario. Can you show a hypothetical series of commands that illustrates the problem(s)?