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How can I get emacs under windows to autocomplete paths in shell buffers using "\" instead of "/"?

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I'm using emacs to work on linux, windows, osx and everything is fine except one annoying problem with shell buffers under windows. Autocompleting filenames would work great (better than standard windows) but is completely useless because it generates paths with forward slash separator for director…

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Short answer: Use the variable . Longer answer: Googling for "emacs shell completion windows" got me to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/Sub_002dprocesses.html, which says the variable controls the completion characters. Setting it to a con…

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