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Re: directory-sep-char
From: |
Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: directory-sep-char |
Date: |
25 Nov 2001 09:57:33 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> The MS-DOS port never supported directory-sep-char (it always behaves
> as if its value were `/'). The Windows port heroically tried to
> support it for a few years, but Andrew and Jason came to the
> conclusion that it couldn't be supported in a consistent manner (even
> if you set it to `\', the forward slash keeps creeping in in all kinds
> of places, and some functions break). So we decided to be honest and
> drop it.
IIRC, the original reason for introducing directory-sep-char was to
ensure DOS style paths got passed to subprocesses. But this problem
has since been dealt with another way, so directory-sep-char is now
only of aesthetic value on Windows.
--
Jason Rumney
- directory-sep-char, Juanma Barranquero, 2001/11/21
- Re: directory-sep-char, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/21
- Re: directory-sep-char, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/24
- Re: directory-sep-char, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/25
- Re: directory-sep-char,
Jason Rumney <=
- Re: directory-sep-char, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/25
- Re: directory-sep-char, Jason Rumney, 2001/11/25
- Re: directory-sep-char, Andrew Choi, 2001/11/25
- Re: directory-sep-char, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/25
- Re: directory-sep-char, Andrew Choi, 2001/11/25
- Re: directory-sep-char, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/26
- Re: directory-sep-char, Juanma Barranquero, 2001/11/26
- Re: directory-sep-char, Jason Rumney, 2001/11/26