RE: [comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows Vista

-----Original Message----- From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:stephen＠xemacs.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 6:42 PM To: Vin Shelton Cc: Michael Sperber; xemacs-beta; Sean.Boisen(a)gmail.com Subject: Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: M-x shell fails under Windows Vista Vin Shelton writes: > the "\\e:" looks bogus to me. I agree it's bogus, but under what conditions does Windows consider "\e:" a drive letter? Does Windows say what it's looking for? (I'm wondering if all the other backslashes disappear too, as they should if something is interpreting those as Lisp or C string escapes.) > In any case, something in the 21.5 startup code is looking for a > file in the "e:" drive, which doesn't exist on Sean's system. I still think that is a Microsoft bug, not an XEmacs bug (unless there's a documented way to tell Windows not to prompt for missing media, which we should use). It should be possible for a program to probe for existence, access, etc of data without bothering the user. Be that as it may, I guess we have to try to reduce the user pain... Sean, have you tried starting up with -vanilla? How about with -no-autoloads and -no-packages? Do you build the distribution with "--with-prefix=no"? Since there are no references to "e:" in the output of debug-paths, I would consider the possibility of something in package auto-autoloads, as well. Do you build a package distribution for use with the Windows installer distribution?