On 2012-10-20 10:11:56 Eli Zaretskii:
| Someone said in another discussion that Cygwin already does accept
| Windows-style file names.

Cygwin Emacs 24.2.1:

   C-x C-f c:/test.txt
   => Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents

   C-x C-f c:\test.txt
   => Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents

| On 2012-10-20 18:49:10 Daniel Colascione:
| please use cygwin-convert-path-from-windows and

In this patch (compared to previous v3):

   - remove functions related to Cygwin and use cygwin-convert-path-from-windows

   - obey END parameter in ffap-search-backward-file-end as originally
     intended

   - correct "path-separator" term into "dir-separator" everywhere

Jari