From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49742 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: wrong directory separator Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:02:00 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044118872 3432 80.91.224.249 (1 Feb 2003 17:01:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18f10w-0000tE-00 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:01:10 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18f124-0007DW-00; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:02:20 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:03:16 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA08567 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:03:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 52907 invoked by alias); 1 Feb 2003 17:02:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 52899 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 17:02:00 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 17:02:00 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18f16c-0006ma-00 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:07:02 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1044119222 23613 80.91.231.2 (1 Feb 2003 17:07:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Feb 2003 17:07:02 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Ambitious Lovers's _Lust_: "Ponta De =?iso-8859-1?q?Lan=E7a?= Africano Umbabaraumba" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEVAJwHqnjycVBP602X+ /dkhBwCvkQyZAAACHklEQVR4nF1UW47jIBDsIPk/QA4And3/YfD+r0QfwBqJ+19lqxo7mVlkxaaK flU3EfFVZijbxMeXHKIx5k50k5DmIXiw5hFq7r0vg9vnnIvYDgk1ttYIq+S/czrur9q0Rvqvui+C cbBCVFUa1GR/uMeO+DyABvek9hvb52jiFlN4RsCHncCvkRYRNHpWIJVAKO7qALybyfaVkG7xbIp4 aOKGMCCkF5HkxImDUGAbfB0IiF+UvYgj3zcWfKueLQy6OfHVC2UKu3WmUE9PJrcuEwJp/nwmeIKu tohnOzbWqVrv29uTSf48lpBBkTMVv4gPCkOgFc/pipFLgIzcDPlBRIhNfDBbRFI3jlESNtkstuSC VvQCLW8dQoBotSIEdAOo5RY7LHpPNcFD7mxPpYPH6DHJaEBD0DpIMEY16xifEek+6MNG4YAgAHLq Ji3vqcbKJD8kRLjPK130K+8jYdfucoNU7SSozujIeKQitbOGq1HdEOTJHBZR28MbhU6kor62Rex5 9bwzKZac3OIVXABjTGuKsThxiciyoW9L+STOfkRnoBHWPb6SMuGnsuDYYuKNWaWbGCrCwR08H+Le XcHYnD2zAe1A7JTKZIwT5urfKrfvxCBzjmh9TZKbXINo3v43096Ed+2UYbf4H6E+y0kf7T27HM/i pfNmJb0YORfsit/LelXuF9WZzW+mzxtSPm82/y/8veQkMS9inQhOwOQfdEu5rY+lWagAAAAASUVO RK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ci4228Xg9Vn/HzwFJ6fXSjC3d6U= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49742 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49742 Katsumi Yamaoka 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... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen