Re: [Monotone-devel] emacs merge on Win32

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> ... For example, a typical file is:
>
> "C:\DOCUME~1\stephe\LOCALS~1\Temp/mtn.left.QEBJ8B"
>
> Emacs lisp turns this into:
>
> "C:DOCUME~1 tepheLOCALS~1Temp/mtn.left.QEBJ8B"
>
> Escaping the backslashes is straightforward; they just need a
> preceding backslash:
>
> "C:\\DOCUME~1\\stephe\\LOCALS~1\\Temp/mtn.left.QEBJ8B"
>
> Alternately, they could be converted to forward slashes (Emacs handles
> either):
>
> "C:/DOCUME~1/stephe/LOCALS~1/Temp/mtn.left.QEBJ8B"
>
> Is there already a Lua function that does that, or something
> similar?

Found it in the Lua manual; string.gsub

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-- Stephe