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Subject: Re: Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST)
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From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:19:20 -0500
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On 1/29/2016 9:16 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/29/2016 9:00 AM, Daniel Daboul wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
>>> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution as
>>> test releases:
>>>
>>> * emacs-24.5-3
>>> * emacs-X11-24.5-3
>>> * emacs-w32-24.5-3
>>> * emacs-el-24.5-3
>>> [...]
>>> This is a rebuild of the 24.5-2 packages, patched to allow native
>>> Windows
>>> paths like C:\foo or C:/foo in situations where file names are expected.
>>>
>>> If you are interested in this feature, please try the test release
>>> and let
>>> me know whether it works the way you expect.
>>
>> Thank you for the packages. I have started to use "emacs-w32-24.5-3",
>> I like the new
>> features and I have not encountered obvious bugs.
>>
>> A shortcoming of the new version "GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of
>> 2016-01-23 on moufang"
>> compared to a mingw version "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200)
>> of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN",
>> which I also use, is that file-name completion does not work for
>> find-file if
>> a windows-style directory path is used. - Daniel
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  I'll see if I can figure out how to make that
> work.

Actually, completion seems to work for me if I use forward slashes but 
not if I use backslashes.  Can you confirm that?  If not, please show me 
a case where it fails.

Ken


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