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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>
Cc: 10827@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10827: 24.0.93; M-RET behaviour with M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:07:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd381j2k5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jkkqvu$r51$1@dough.gmane.org> (Achim Gratz's message of "Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:59:03 +0100")

>> I am on Windows + Cygwin. The immediate problem seems to be that
>> `diff-hunk-file-names' assumes that file names have no spaces.

> You seem to be using an NT version of Emacs in conjunction with
> Cygwin. While that does to some extent work (I'm doing that myself
> sometimes), it isn't a supported combination as the filename quoting rules
> on either side are completely different.  It is much easier to run Emacs
> from Cygwin instead and have _all_ of it work than trying to troubleshoot
> each missed path conversion or botched quoting.

While that is generally true, I don't think that will help him fix the
problem, because the problem is a limitation of Emacs's Elisp code.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-24 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-16 17:02 bug#10827: 24.0.93; M-RET behaviour with M-x diff-buffer-with-file RET Jambunathan K
2012-03-21 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-03-22 15:10   ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-24 15:59     ` Achim Gratz
2012-03-24 18:07       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-03-27 17:37         ` Achim Gratz
2013-11-15  5:09 ` Jambunathan K

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