bug#4902: 23.1; directory-abbrev-alist is not handled early enough

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:47:36 -0500
> From: "David J. Biesack" <David.Biesack@sas.com>
> CC: 4902@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA
> 
> > About the only thing I can suggest is to run with the drive u: being
> > the current drive.  Then /foo/bar on both Windows and Unix will refer
> > to the same place, and you don't need any mapping at all.
> 
> that still won't work for Unix network paths that are not mapped in U:

What prevents you from mapping them all to U: ?