Re: wrong directory separator

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> The root cause of the problem is the default value for the
> nnheader-directory-separator-character variable.  Since I'm not
> using M$ Windoze so much, I don't know whether there are any
> versions of Emacsen using the backslash character in the
> expand-file-name function as follows:
>
> (let ((default-directory "."))
>   (expand-file-name "bar" "foo"))
>  => ".\\foo\\bar"
>
> Any ideas?

The reason I introduced that variable was because a Windows user
reported that generating the active file for nnml created groups that
were named "some\\thing".  Letting
`nnheader-directory-separator-character' be ?\ apparently fixed his
problem.

But perhaps there's a different way to compute this variable that
will get this right on all Windoses/Emacsens?  For instance -- we
could eval the following and see what character number 2 is:

(let ((default-directory "."))
  (expand-file-name "foo"))

But I'm not familiar with the mysteries of Windows at all, so I don't
know... 

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