From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help
Subject: Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:24:33 +0300
Message-ID: <83sggxfue6.fsf@gnu.org>
References: <861roio4u3.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83h7xegosa.fsf@gnu.org>
 <86o8rmlyxv.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202";
	logging-data="73452"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io"
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 04:25:14 2020
Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>
Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org
Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17])
	by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256)
	(Exim 4.92)
	(envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>)
	id 1jQib3-000Izj-NG
	for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 04:25:13 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47032 helo=lists1p.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
	(envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>)
	id 1jQib1-0000M7-Hw
	for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:25:11 -0400
Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43916)
 by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
 (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1jQiaf-0000M0-Il
 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:24:50 -0400
Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33019)
 by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
 (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1jQiaf-0007Y7-Bd
 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:24:49 -0400
Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2473 helo=home-c4e4a596f7)
 by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256)
 (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1jQiae-0000UN-Jq
 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:24:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <86o8rmlyxv.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
 (dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de)
X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23
Precedence: list
List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-gnu-emacs>,
 <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs>
List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>,
 <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org
Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs"
 <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org>
Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122905
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/122905>

> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:49:48 +0200
> 
> But now there is the problem that w32-shell-execute seemingly doesn't
> recognise cygwin paths. (here: "/cygwin/c/...")
> 
>   error "ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the file..."
> 
> It seems to me as if w32-shell-execute is not literate for cygwin paths
> and one needs to normalise them to the Windows standard ("c:/...")?

Yes.  There's a function for that already in Emacs:
cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows.