[Bug: 21.5-b28] mswindows eshell pccomplete and the special backslash

[Vin Shelton]

On Feb 19, 2008 4:31 AM, FKtPp <m_pupil at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
>
> Dear Bug Team!
>
> The problem is, when I using eshell mode in ms-window system, say I
> want to change into a long-named-directory. If I do a:
>
> $ cd long-<TAB>
>
> as in *nix systems, the long-named-directory will be pccompleted as
>
> long-named-direcotry\
>
> Note the trailing backlash, which also has special meaning in eshell.
> So, every time I pccomplete a path name, I have to type in a extra
> blackslash or blackspace to deal with the pccompleted-blackslash.
>
> To reproduce this, you must be in MS-WINDOWS environment.

The following works for me, YMMV:

(setq directory-sep-char ?/)

Regards,
  Vin