%os-chars(5)

NAME

%os-chars - Characters used by the OS

SYNOPSIS

%os-chars "string"; Default is platform specific

DESCRIPTION

%os-chars defines the characters used by the current operating system in specific places. The characters have fixed indices defined as follows:

Index 0


Directory separator character, used when giving a full path, MicroEmacs always uses '/' internally but these many need to be converted for some operations.

Index 1


Character used after a drive letter, typically ':', if the current OS does not support drives this character will be a space (' ').

Index 2


Path separator character, typically used in the system's PATH environment variable to separate each path.

Index 3


Multiple command separator character, used to separate two commands on a system command-line where both commands are always run, regardless of the exit-code of the first command. Note that two ampersands ('&&') works in a similar way except if the exit code of the first (left hand) command is non-zero, indicating an error, the other command is not executed.

SEE ALSO

file-tool-setup(3).

Ref: %os-chars(5) File: m5var096.5 Date: 2025/07/27

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