Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 11 Oct 2001 10:03:19 -0700
> 
> Well, the issue of treating "file" as whichever of (file.lnk,
> file.exe, file.bat, etc.) is appropriate is probably too much of a
> change to the Emacs way.

Emacs already has a function, on the C level, to look for files with
some known extensions.  This is how it finds "foo.el" when you say
"M-x load-library RET foo RET".  On DOS and Windows, the same function
is used to find .exe, .com, .bat, etc. executable in a way that mimics
Windows shells.

So this particular problem is already solved.