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Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:24:49 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

> When I use the Interactive Inferior Shell in emacs on w32 and press
> TAB for completion, I get "/" instead of "\" after the directory
> names.

> Couldn't emacs add "\" on w32 instead?

It could, but it doesn't want to.  In Emacs, the canonical directory
separator is / (although \ is made to work as well under w32, for obvious
interoperability reasons).


        Stefan




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