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

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That's because, to this day, there's no coherent set of Windows ports
> of GNU tools that is sufficiently free of bugs.
>
> Maybe instead of distributing patched Emacs binaries, you could use
> the energy to produce such a set of ports.  Then the job of building
> Emacs would be so much easier.
>   

You are absolutely right about the lack of sufficiently good tools, but 
do not think I am the right one to do it now. Actually I would have had 
quite a bit more time if my more essential patches had been accepted.( 
The most essential patches at this time are the low level keyboard hook 
and the automatic startup of Emacs through emacsclient. Some workaround 
for ange-ftp too perhaps.)

If someone is interested in trying to make the tools better for w32 I 
would argue that some of the tools should just handle lines and not care 
about what line types the files have. Strip the line endings, do what is 
needed and then output with the wanted line endings. That is actually 
the way Emacs work. It would be nice if for example patch.exe did this.

Though for such work to be long standing and without much trouble the 
patches must find it ways into the main code of those GNU programs.


But a distribution is actually another thing too. It should help people 
getting started easily. It was not very easy from the beginning in my 
opinion.

> Your suggestions are always seriously considered, but please don't
> expect them to be always accepted.
>   

Ah, thanks.