Re: Patch for gnuclient handling DOS absolute paths
Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
I think I have a better solution: Just realize that
"c:\foo" is an
absolute pathname and let xemacs deal with it. This can be handled by
I think you either have to convert the slashes ("\" --> "/"),
or
quote the backslashes ("\" --> "\\"); otherwise, the elisp reader
will
treat the backslashes as escape sequences.
[ Also, I think much of your patch was correct. The absolute path
detection needed fixing, and something needed to be done with the
backslashes. The only clearly broken part was translating the drive
letters (e.g., "c:\" to "/c/"). ]
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Darryl Okahata
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