Re: propose adding Icicles to Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

    > I semi-understand that, but how do the backslashes get into
    > `default-directory'?  If they serve to control completion, they should
    > always be eliminated by the time `read-file-name' returns, right?

    They can get into `default-directory' on Windows, at least. IMO, they should
    never get into it, but they can.

Instead of catering to this bug, we should debug it and fix it.