On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:08:35PM +0800, zwz wrote: > "John J. Foerch" <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:11:15PM +0800, zwz wrote: > >> Another very important thing is to support "/" as path separator. In > >> fact it is already supported on Windows (in cmd or explorer). But in > >> Conkeror, I found I could not use it for user_pref('conkeror.rcfile', > >> 'd:/emacs/home/.conkerorrc') > > > > > > Let's bring this discussion back to reality. As I was saying, I have no > > way to test any windows-specific features I write. However, if it's > > important to people, I can write the feature and have the conkeror > > community test it for me. > > I would like to be one. :) >
I pushed the patch yesterday. Please try it. > > > > I did a web search and found that "/" is an illegal filename character > > in > > Windows. In the expert opinion of anybody reading this message, does > > that > > mean we can safely do a simple substitution of "/" for "\\", and that > > there are no corner cases to worry about? > > I guess it is my fault that I misused the term of "path separator". > In fact I mean "path delimiter" or "directory separator". Anyway, > what I googled is that > > #+BEGIN_QUOTE > Actually, every version of Windows, and every version of MS-DOS from 2.0 on, > has accepted "/" as a path delimiter. > #+END_QUOTE > > Here are some links you can check: > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing) > 2. > http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/23123-when-did-windows-start-accepting-forward-slash-path-separator > 3. http://php.net/manual/en/function.basename.php > > So in my opinion, we should always prefer "/", and there is no need for > a simple substitution of "/" for "\\". None of that was ever in question. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
