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
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