At 12:56 AM 5/17/99 -0700, Kyle Jones wrote:
remove it. And the electric slash thing that the minibuffer
does when you type // would still have to be hacked out. The
filesystem I mentioned implemented a network filesystem. You
could write //host/foo/bar to access /foo/bar on 'host'. It
did its magic at the filesystem level and so it worked with
everything.
BTW this syntax is allowed in the builtins under cygwin as well as
mswindows. Maybe it should be a compile time option.
andy