Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32

[Lennart Borgman]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Emacsclient is used from outside Emacs and there we
> > should try to be consistent with the existing UI.
>
> For some definition of "consistency", of course.
>
> W:\> gzip c:input.txt
> c:input.txt: No such file or directory
>
> W:\> diff c:get-diskusage.ps1 c:get-fileversion.ps1
> diff: c:get-diskusage.ps1: No such file or directory
> diff: c:get-fileversion.ps1: No such file or directory
>
> W:\> grep solve c:sudoku.hs
> grep: c:sudoku.hs: No such file or directory
>
> etc. etc.


These are just bugs. If you use findstr instead of grep it works. If you 
use notepad it works.

I am not quite sure, but I believe I have seen that the recommendation 
from MS for a file argument is to use GetFullPathName. However it was 
quite a while since I looked into that.