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

Vin Shelton writes: 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.) 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? _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta