Make sure *scratch* etc. use forward slashes in its default-directory

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / startup.el

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 13463107d2e0a86274b32e53c4854f394b6ae203..a31d35544a410070b86ba74e2d0c7460ad3b65e7 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -544,7 +544,11 @@ It is the default value of the variable `top-level'."
            (set-buffer elt)
            (if default-directory
                (setq default-directory
-                     (decode-coding-string default-directory coding t)))))
+                      (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
+                          ;; Convert backslashes to forward slashes.
+                          (expand-file-name
+                           (decode-coding-string default-directory coding t))
+                        (decode-coding-string default-directory coding t))))))
 
        ;; Decode all the important variables and directory lists, now
        ;; that we know the locale's encoding.  This is because the