Subject: Re: bug#8439: [PATCH] ffap.el -- detect paths with spaces (v2)

From: jari <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:05:56 +0300

On 2012-10-19 11:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
| > 
| >   1. New variable ffap-paths-with-spaces controls if the behavior is in use.
| >      By default it is set to "t" in Windows/Cygwin where spaces in paths
| >      are encountered.
| 
| GNU Coding Standards frown upon using "path" for anything except
| PATH-style lists of directories.  Use "file name" or "leading
| directories" instead.
| 
| >   2. The "path skipping" is based on finding longest distance:
| > 
| >      - from first "drive letter", "/" or "\"
| >      - until last "/", "\" followed by last non-matching-char-not-usually-found-in-file-names
| 
| What will this do to text such as the one below?
| 
|  C:\emacs\bin\prog1.exe on Windows or /usr/bin/prog1 on Unix.

User can enable/disable if spaces are taken into account. If enabled,
the result is:

  "C:\emacs\bin\prog1.exe on Windows or /usr/bin/prog1"

If disabled, depending on cursor position:

  "C:\emacs\bin\prog1.exe"
  "/usr/bin/prog1"

If you have strategiy to make it better, please suggest.

| >   3. In Cygwin Emacs the paths are expected to be in "/cygdrive/<letter>/"
| >      format.
| 
| What about Posix-standard /foo/bar/baz, which is the usual case on
| Cygwin?

Only "<drive letter>:" is converted into "/cygdrive/<drive letter>" under
Cygwin.

Jari