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

* lisp/startup.el (normal-top-level): On MS-Windows, convert
backslashes to forward slashes while decoding default-directory
of the initially-created buffers.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 13463107d2e..a31d35544a4 100644
--- 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