Re: Accessing /:path in XEmacs
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
>
> > Yes, I've been aware of FSF's `/:' special prefix for quite some
time
> > now, but I've never seen the use for it. Thanks for explaining it.
> >
> > So, what needs to be done to port it?
>
> I guess the easy start would be to have a filename handler method
> that matches on "/:", strips it of and calls the built-in method for
> everything.
Is this a serious proposal or a quick hack suggestion? I'd rather do
it right than introduce ugly hacks.
I consider it serious. I don't want this stuff hacked into the
guts of Fexpand_file_name or something like that. I've had to
hack extraneous filename munging out of Emacs in the past.
//path had a special meaning in a file system we were using at
an employer years ago, and for each version of Emacs installed
I had to hack Emacs so that // would actually reach the open()
call.