RE: [h-e-w] Re: sending filenames from command-line

[rob . davenport]

Mathias: "But it's cool! :) And, it will work for more advanced 
cases where you need more parameters that might include 
backslashesh."

Definitely cool.  (They have added a bunch of cool stuff to CMD
over the years.  Makes me wonder what it'll be like to use Monad,
er, Powershell, in Vista.  Tried the beta briefly but didn't 
get around to doing much with it.)

And you're right - it might be better to be prepared for other
situations, like your ediff example. 

Franz: "Although not documented, you can use this extension to 
environment variable expansion everywhere in a cmd shell, not 
only within the set command. Therefore, your macro can be 
simplified to:
dired=c:\sys\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -sqFe "(dired \"%CD:\=/%\")" 

That is cool!  It works and I'll use it.  Thanks!

I was still really wondering what the layers were that are 
involved when sending a string from the command-line to Emacs
and how they alter parameters.  CMD's 'readline'-like layer,
gnuclient's parameter parsing, Emacs' parsing, etc. and who
could be translating backslashes and requiring quoting ("I need
how many backslashes do I need to pass one in? Four?").
But if this %var:x=y% expansion will work I may not need to 
worry. 

Thanks again, Mathias, Franz.

Rob