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Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support
From: |
David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support |
Date: |
11 Oct 2001 10:03:19 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> Besides, you seem to be assuming that this will only be used in
> visiting files (otherwise I don't understand how can
> find-alternate-file help). That assumption is probably wrong: Emacs
> has functions that deal with files but do not visit those files.
> For example, what about write-region?
Hmmm. Good point. I've never used write-region, so it didn't occur
to me. I thought my idea would handle the _majority_ of cases for the
general Emacs user (Elisp programmers are another problem entirely).
> The shortcuts do indeed end in `.lnk', but the crucial detail you
> are missing is that they are not _referenced_ with that extension
> explicitly mentioned. It's like program invocation: you type "foo
> RET", but expect `foo.exe' to be invoked.
> So I think any of the Emacs mechanisms which are based on file-name
> patterns will not be able to handle this.
Well, the issue of treating "file" as whichever of (file.lnk,
file.exe, file.bat, etc.) is appropriate is probably too much of a
change to the Emacs way. Even Windows programs get confused if you
enter a filename without the extension and there are several to choose
from. Some Windows programs will make assumptions (like Notepad will
assume .txt), but Emacs doesn't have to.
--
David Masterson dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, (continued)
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/10
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Steve Kemp, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support,
David Masterson <=
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Raymond Zeitler, 2001/10/11
Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/11