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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>,
>         address@hidden
> From: Chris Moore <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:52:19 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Personally, I _never_ want to see backslashes, even when I work in
> > CMD.  It makes me saner, since I happen to work simultaneously on
> > Unix and on Windows.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.
> 
> Compare:
> 
> "Personally, I never want to see those funny accent characters over the
>  letters when I type in Czech.  I work simultaneously in English and
>  Czech, and the accents confuse me.  Let cmdproxy insert the accents
>  for me".

You can try mocking my preferences till Kingdom Come, but they are
still _my_ preferences, and I didn't impose them on anyone else.
Arguing about personal preferences, like about taste, is futile and
counter-productive.  I clearly wrote that the character used in
completion should be a *user option*.  So if you want, you can set that
character to the Czech accent, it's fine with me.

> If cmdproxy is changed to re-write dir commands, you'll be breaking
> things for people who expect dir to work like dir works in a regular
> cmd.exe window

Read my lips: it should be a user option.  No one will have anything
broken if they don't want this.

Anyway, I guess you've never used keyboard enhancement programs that
make such rewrites seamlessly and transparently.  For people who
routinely work on both Windows and Unix, this is a sanity-savior.