MS Windows quirks

[Rodney Sparapani]

I can't file a bug report since I'm not an MS Windows user.  But, I was 
helping a colleague setup XEmacs on MS Windows and some things are 
peculiar, but I suspect they could be fixed easily.  For example,
opening a link file gets you a binary mess.  Luckily, the actual 
filename is in that mess and you can usually copy and paste it to open 
the actual file.  Can't that be automated?

Also, when you copy that to the minibuffer, you have to edit whatever 
was their already.  I guess that's because the absolute path of the 
filename starts with <drive-letter>: instead of /, ~ or \ (MS 
Windows-only, I assume).  Could this also be automated just on MS 
Windows?  I mean something like...

C-x C-f

minibuffer before: c:\dir\with\link\<cursor>

minibuffer during: c:\dir\with\link\<paste>c:\actual\filename</paste>

minibuffer after : c:\actual\filename<cursor>

So, in other words, the magic symbols would also need to include a regex 
something like [a-zA-Z]:

Thanks,

Rodney