Subject: [[email-masked]: Re: "complete.el" on WindowsNT 4.0]

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:27:53 -0400

Please do the right thing.

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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:49:33 -0400
From: Peter Breton <[email-masked]>
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Subject: Re: "complete.el" on WindowsNT 4.0
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 Hans> Is there a way to get the package "complete.el" to work on
 Hans> WindowsNT 4.0 just as cool as it does under UNIX ??

 Hans> Whatever I tried so far does not seem to have any effect at
 Hans> all.

 Hans> ("complete.el" allows wildcards when retrieving files in
 Hans> directories/filenames)

The problem seems to be that the function `PC-expand-many-files' calls

  (shell-command (concat "echo " name) t)

to get the names of the files all on a single line, relying on Unix-style
shell expansion. If you could find a utility that does that, then all
would be well -- more or less. This scheme probably won't work with
filenames with embedded spaces, which are rare on Unix but common on
95 and NT. One filename per line would be much better, and could use
"ls" or the equivalent.

			Peter
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