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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST)


On 1/23/2016 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
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.

For the sake of the archives, I'm announcing here that I consider this experimental release to be a failure[*]. I won't be including the patch in the upcoming release of emacs-25.1.

Ken

[*] It only allows Win32 paths in a few situations. For example, they can't be used as arguments to 'C-x d'. Extensive changes to the emacs code would be required in order to allow them everywhere, and I don't think it's worth the trouble or the risk of breaking something.


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