Re[1]: vhdl-mode 3.30

>> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; seems to think that: [Eric Ludlam and XEmacs beta CC'ed] Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de&gt; writes: > >>>>> Jan Vroonhof writes: > > > Reto Zimmermann <reto(a)synopsys.com&gt; writes: > >> Are you sure your speedbar version includes the changes of 1999/11/29 > >> which fixed a major bug for Windows XEmacs (recognition of backslashes > >> in directory paths)? > > > Given that our version dates from September, probably not. > > However which changes are you talking about, our version is based on > > speedbar-0.8.1 which is still the latest version on > > http://www.ultranet.com/~zappo/speedbar.html > > There's a newer version (0.9bovine1) directly at > http://choochoo.ultranet.com/~zappo/fsf.shtml. I can send the version > if you need it. I don't like taking development versions without the authors involvement, especially not as Eric indicated he was in the midst of a major rewrite. I have CC'ed Eric now. Eric, what would you prefer?

>From what I see his latest version still has a lot the potential problems. It would be nice if somebody could help Eric and rewrite all these and send him a patch (which we could apply to 0.8.1 as a stop-gap).

Typical example (setq rt (concat (expand-file-name rt) (if (string-match "[/\\]\\'" rt) "" "/") (file-name-nondirectory f)))) This may match both separators now, but it is much more cleanly written as (setq rt (expand-file-name (file-name-non-directory f) rt))