Re: directory-sep-char

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25 Nov 2001, Jason Rumney wrote:
> 
> > > Should we keep the current "sometimes display / sometimes something else"
> > > or should we just stop trying to display native paths or should we
> > > strive to display paths in native form as much as possible ?
> > 
> > Personally I think inconsistency is likely to lead to bug reports.
> 
> I agree.  When a user types "d:/foo/bar TAB", displaying
> "d:\foo\barfoo" in response would be very confusing, I think.

No more confusing than displaying "d:/foo/barfoo" when they type
"d:\foo\bar TAB", I think. But this was not the inconsistency I had in
mind. Currently if directory-sep-char is '\', in some places Emacs
will display '\', but in others it will still display '/'.


-- 
Jason Rumney