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Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacsclient: support `/' directory separator on w32
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:19:20 +0200

> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:15:59 +0000
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Are we 110% sure the drive letter can be only something for which
> > isalpha returns a non-zero value?  What about isalpha in non-English
> > locales, for example?
> >   
> I'm 99% sure it can only be A-Z. But isalpha() covers a much larger 
> range of characters anyway, and it certainly can't be punctuation or 
> numeric characters.

I was asking precisely because on MS-DOS, the drive letter could be
something like `[' or `_' (it allowed 32 letters starting from `A').

I'd say either check A-Z or don't check at all.  But that's a minor
nitpick anyway...




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