Moving to Win XP as a Python developer

[Thomas Heller]

Scott David Daniels <scott.daniels at acm.org> writes:

> Christian Stapfer wrote:
>> "John J. Lee" <jjl at pobox.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.2039.1129247775.509.python-list at python.org...
>>
>>>cmd.exe can be made bearable....
>>>
>>>0. Make a shortcut to cmd.exe, stick it somewhere get-at-able,
>>>  eg. quick launch toolbar

> I put it on my desktop.  Once having made it, fiddle with
> "Start in" to be your favorite python code directory (that is
> why I usually have several), and append a space and /D /X /F:ON
> to the "Target" line.

I have an elisp function bound to a key in XEmacs that starts cmd in the
directory where the current buffer is.  IMO this is very convenient.  To
access explorer from that command prompt (in the rare cases that I need
it) I use 'start .'.

Thomas