From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: specifying Windows filenames
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:52:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3405-Tue24Jun2003175216+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kvel1jkjce.fsf@mcp0147c.mch.fsc.net> (message from Harald Joerg on Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:47:29 +0200)
> From: Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:47:29 +0200
>
> Sorry, I really should have checked this before. I've been fooled by
> the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation.
>
> Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour? unixish
> assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)?
The Cygwin port is mostly unmodified Unix code (that's the crux of the
Cygwin project's philosophy), so it _must_ use Unixish assumptions,
almost by definition.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-24 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 14:57 specifying Windows filenames Gustaf Erikson
2003-06-23 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.8475.1056385357.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-23 19:50 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-24 7:07 ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24 7:11 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-24 7:47 ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-06-24 16:24 ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-25 7:55 ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24 8:03 ` [solved] " Gustaf Erikson
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