From: Chris Moller <cmoller@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Do not treat '\' as escape character on MinGW Windows hosts
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD037D5.8000305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100422023421.GA20111@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On 04/21/10 22:34, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:17:14PM -0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
>>>> (gdb) file c:\\foo\\bar.exe
>>>> Reading symbols from c:\foo\bar.exe...done.
>>>>
>>> Why not just use a "forward" slash?
>>>
>> It's not always that easy - A lot of times, the user wants to copy/paste
>> a path that's been printed by another tool. Also, the typical Windows
>> user seems to think that he should be able to use a valid Windows path
>> (which I agree)...
>>
>
> I agree too except when we're talking about something that is
> essentially a UNIX tool. And, I don't see how you can talk about the
> pain of doubling up the backslashes if you're talking about cutting and
> pasting.
>
> I know I'll be outvoted here but I I hate cluttering code with MS-DOS
> workarounds.
>
+1
> cgf
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 20:34 Joel Brobecker
2010-04-21 22:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-04-22 0:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-22 2:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-04-22 8:17 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-22 10:37 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-22 11:51 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-22 12:01 ` Pierre Muller
2010-04-22 12:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-22 11:54 ` Chris Moller
2010-04-22 12:33 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-04-22 11:49 ` Chris Moller [this message]
2010-04-22 12:47 ` André Pönitz
2010-05-05 18:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-05-06 23:56 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2010-06-04 21:53 ` Tom Tromey
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