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

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:33:00 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > CC:  address@hidden
> >     
> > > I heard what you said, and I obviously disagree that it's a clear bug.
> > > It is no more a bug than the fact that Emacs uses only forward slashes
> > > in file-name completion in the minibuffer, even on Windows.
> > >
> > > In other words, you are arguing for a new feature.  While I'm not
> > > opposed to having such a feature, now is not the time to introduce new
> > > features.
> > >   
> > >       
> > New feature? I think that things work correctly is hopefully not a new 
> > feature in Emacs ;-)
> >     
>
> It's a new feature because it will have to be customizable.  I don't
> want my shell buffers auto-complete with backslashes, and I'm sure I'm
> not the only one.
>   

Can you please explain more exactly what problems you see with my patch? 
It autocompletes in the shell buffer with "\" if the shell used has 
w32-shell-dos-semantics. When do you not want this?

Why do you think it has to be customizable?

>   
> >         C:\myecvs> dir bld/emacs<RET>
> >         dir bld/emacs
> >         Invalid switch - "emacs".
> >     
>
> That's a different problem, because I could type the full command
> "dir foo/bar" without using auto-completion, and it would still fail.
> It could be solved in cmdproxy, for example.  If you have time to work
> on this, please do.
>   

There is no need to do it on that level AFAICS, but maybe I will change 
my mind if you explain the problems you see with my patch a bit more in 
details. You have not told me any such yet that I think are relevant.