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bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with /
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#8132: 23.1; comint shell replaces \ in paths with / |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:27:28 +0200 |
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, zvrba.external@zvrba.net,
> 8132@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:02:23 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > It could be easier to make a wrapper around the file completion, which
> > would simply convert all / into \ when the result is inserted into the
> > shell buffer. That's because working with / is very basic in
> > file-name completion, and reaches deep into the code and the
> > primitives it uses.
>
> It should respect remote file names. A conversion to \ is not helpful
> for them.
Sorry, I'm not following: what remote file names? We are talking
about "M-x shell" with the stock Windows shell. That shell doesn't
support remote file names at all. What am I missing?
> Likely, it is sufficient to suppress the conversion if default-directory
> is remote.
How can it be, in "M-x shell"?