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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Another Gulam quirk (it's still the best shell though ;-)
Message-ID: <2145@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 21:40:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.2145
Posted: Sun Jun  7 21:40:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jun-87 01:15:03 EDT
References: <1942@trwrb.UUCP> <412@wolf.UUCP>
Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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Keywords: bug-a-boo

In article <412@wolf.UUCP> billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
>While on the subject, another trifling but VERY annoying problem exists with
>ue in gulam. It seemd to think all pathnames are relative, not absolute. When
>I am in bin and try to ue \src\ts.c, for example, ue puts me into a 'new file'
>buffer with the pathname \bin\\src\ts.c. I hope this is repaired in a forth-
>coming version...

	pm@cwru.edu probably has a better explaination for this
decisions, but as i recall this 'feature' is an emulation of
the behavior of GnuEmacs, where when you try to visit-file, it
always puts the $cwd of the current buffer in for you. The diff
is that in GnuEmacs if you then type in an absolute path (starting with
a '/'), it will drop the $cwd prefix, and visit-file the file whose
absolute path name you specify. Perhaps this should be the behavior of
'ue' too. Currently the best way i guess is to kill-backward-word (by
default bound to ESC DEL) to get rid of the $cwd prefix and then
type in the file name (remember that file-name-completion works here too!).
I do agree that it is annoying.
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