MS Windows quirks

[Rodney Sparapani]

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> 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

The xemacs-beta feed has been a little flaky for me lately.  So, I'm 
just making sure this got out.  Of course, maybe no one actually cares 
about this.  FWIW, this is a stable version, either .20 or .21.

Rodney