Re: Expand dir name with \ when on windows.

[anhnmncb]

On 2009-01-01, Jason Rumney wrote:
> anhnmncb wrote:
>> On 2008-12-25, anhnmncb wrote:
>>   
>>> Is there a varible that control the expanding behivior when on windows?
>>> I find that *shell* sometimes does strange thing when cd dir with /, the
>>> shell prompt is still the old dir, but actually I have changed to the new
>>> dir. With \, no strange happens.
>>>     
>
> Have you tried changing the value of comint-completion-addsuffix?

I have tried (setq comint-completion-addsuffix '("\\" . " "))
Then
 
        shell> cd ..\foo<tab>
 
you will find that emacs changes it to
 
        shell> cd ../foo\
 
the result I want is
 
        shell > cd ..\foo\.

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Regards,
anhnmncb