Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>
> At 08:37 AM 6/6/2001 -0600, Brad Porter wrote:
> >Hello. I am finding that I have to modify 'jde-compile.el' in order to
> >get the JDK " -d " option to work correctly under cygwin.
>
> I set directory-path-sep to ?/ in my .emacs file for the rare times I use
> XEmacs (for testing JDE compatibility).This eliminates the need for
> quoting. Note that the default separator under NT/Emacs is forward slash.
is this change required for jde to work in xemacs? i certainly hope not.
>
> I think it was a mistake on the part of the NT/XEmacs developers to make
> the default separator a back slash. First, there was no need to do it as
> Windows applications don't care whether the slash is forward or backward.
> Secondly, it makes life difficult for users who uses applications, such as
> bash, that treat the forward slash as an escape character.
obviously we disagree.
the explicit goal of xemacs was to make it a *native* windows app, not a windows
app pretending to be a unix one.
>
> - Paul
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