From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12793 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2000 08:43:51 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jun 2000 08:43:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 17555 invoked by alias); 28 Jun 2000 08:43:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12098 Received: (qmail 17548 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2000 08:43:44 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:43:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200006280843.KAA31884@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:25:43 +0400 Subject: RE: PATCH: files and paths and... Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > ... > > So, what is needed to support it is > > - add backslash as path seprator to _path_files I don't think I'll even try to do this... all that quoting could get very ugly. > - _path_files should recognize 'x:\' as "root". I would have expected some help for how to detect if we are on cygwin then ;-) > Hmm ... there seems to be one more problem. Zsh can glob 'c:/Progr*' to > 'c:/Program Files' but not 'c:\Progr*'. It seems, that it needs more > deep support; globbing code should recognize '\' as valid path separator > as well. See above. Did Amol's port do this? I guess it did... > Oh, yes, and NT has case-insensitive file system, that means, globbing > should be case-insensitive by default as well. Hm. For non-_match completion this is simple and I don't think I'll try to change the C-code for _match to support this. And all this for some rotten Microsoft thing. Ick. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de