From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change the way emacs executes xdvi? Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:35:30 +0200 Message-ID: <435675D2.3050808@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129742434 29076 80.91.229.2 (19 Oct 2005 17:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 19:20:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESHah-0007FB-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:19:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESHah-0000Ma-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESGyF-0000cv-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESGyE-0000cA-2w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESGyD-0000c3-RE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESGyD-00087y-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.220.91) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 434E6D1D0014D335; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:35:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Paminu In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30378 Archived-At: Paminu wrote: >I have installed emacs,xdvi, tex and auctex under cygwin for winXP. > > >I would like to change the way that emacs executes xdvi. Right now it does: > >c:\cygwin\home\diku>bash --login -e xdvi c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi& >bash --login -e xdvi c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi& >xdvi-xaw.bin: Fatal error: Could not open `c:/cygwin/home/diku/haps.dvi': No >such file or directory. > > >But if I in run just type: >bash --login -e xdvi /home/diku/haps.dvi > >it work! How do I make emacs "drop" "c:/cygwin"? > > I have no solution. I just want to say I do not understand how Cygwin handles file names. I can for example do ls "c:/program files" in Cygwin bash. It seems a bit inconsistent if your case does not work.