Re: Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST)

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 1/29/2016 9:00 AM, Daniel Daboul wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution as
>> test releases:
>>
>> * emacs-24.5-3
>> * emacs-X11-24.5-3
>> * emacs-w32-24.5-3
>> * emacs-el-24.5-3
>> [...]
>> This is a rebuild of the 24.5-2 packages, patched to allow native Windows
>> paths like C:\foo or C:/foo in situations where file names are expected.
>>
>> If you are interested in this feature, please try the test release and let
>> me know whether it works the way you expect.
>
> Thank you for the packages. I have started to use "emacs-w32-24.5-3",
> I like the new
> features and I have not encountered obvious bugs.
>
> A shortcoming of the new version "GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of
> 2016-01-23 on moufang"
> compared to a mingw version "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.2.9200)
> of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN",
> which I also use, is that file-name completion does not work for find-file if
> a windows-style directory path is used. - Daniel

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll see if I can figure out how to make that 
work.

Ken


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