Re: Cannot change to 'C:\' (root) on Windows

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>>> Nevertheless, so far as I can tell from testing, versions
>>> 3.7, 4.0, and 4.1 all behave the same way.
>>> Why is it suddenly a bug now, but not for the past 10 years?
>>
>> It was always a bug, but nobody noticed.
>
> I thought so, too, when I first noticed this behaviour two months
> ago.  But then, why is it a bug?  Where do the docs say what
> backslashes do in single quoted strings?  The current single quoted
> strings work very much the same way as "raw strings" do in python.
> Nevertheless, it seems counterintuitive to me.  It should at least
> be documented.
>
> As a side note: If the current behaviour is changed, patch [1289725]
> "handling double quotes in gnuplot-mode" will be outdated (and I
> wouldn't know how to fix it).

There is no change to behaviour:
 	this works: X 'C:\tmp'
 	this not:   X 'C:\'
where X is set title or cd or whatever else.

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