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Re: Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:24:10PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:35:27 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >
> > I don't actually know which form of paths current Windows MI clients
> > use. I agree that it would be convenient if they mostly used forward
> > slashes; but it looks like Eclipse uses native backslashed paths
> > primarily, so I've some interest in supporting them (to perturb Eclipse
> > as little as possible).
>
> If we want to support backslashes on Windows _and_ backslash-escaping
> without lots of ugly system-dependent code, then we will have to
> require to double each backslash. Which I think will be inconvenient.
For the CLI, yes, this is somewhat inconvenient. I think the
consistency benefits trump that; the user can always enter forward
slashes instead. And we already need to double backslashes in some
places (like "file").
For the MI, it's not at all inconvenient; e.g. Eclipse already has code
to do this in most places (though as I mentioned, it's not quite
correct).
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery