Re: 22.1.90; `locate' and "C:" on Windows

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Feb 14 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14 2008, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> You need to fix dired-insert-set-properties, which is somehow
>> assuming Unix filename conventions.  I notice that
>> dired-move-to-filename, which is called by
>> dired-insert-set-properties, has the following comment:
>>
>>   (defun dired-move-to-filename (&optional raise-error eol)
>>     "Move to the beginning of the filename on the current line.
>>   Return the position of the beginning of the filename, or nil if none 
>> found."
>>     ;; This is the UNIX version.
>>     ...
>>
>> Could someone who runs Emacs on Windows check to see if this function
>> needs to be fixed?  
>
> AFAIKS, it works fine for real dired buffers.  But for *Locate*
> buffers, we need a fix.
[...]
> You can probably reproduce with (setq locate-command "~/loc.sh")
> and...
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ cat ~/loc.sh
> echo C:/blub/foobar.baz
> echo C:/abc/foobar.baz
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'll add it to "WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS (for 22.3 or later)." in
FOR-RELEASE:

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| ** `locate' and drive letter ("C:") on Windows
| For a recipe to reproduce the problem on GNU/Linux, see 
| <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/88971/focus=89106>
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Bye, Reiner.
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