From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin patches Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:09:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4B09EEF7.1020106@cornell.edu> References: <4B06F562.8060504@cornell.edu> <4B071784.5030901@cornell.edu> <83my2gpa83.fsf@gnu.org> <4B07D914.8070608@cornell.edu> <836394oxr9.fsf@gnu.org> <4B0859F2.8080202@cornell.edu> <39880.128.165.0.81.1258867518.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <4B0935CC.5010704@cornell.edu> <874oomcgcz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B09C807.8000202@cornell.edu> <4B09E73E.8000800@cornell.edu> <876392m2l6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258942219 10001 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 02:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 03:10:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCONT-00019C-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:10:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCONS-0006CG-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCONN-0006C2-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCONI-0006AK-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32840 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCONH-0006AH-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:40726 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCONG-0005Gt-IB; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:09:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.6] (cpe-67-241-20-9.twcny.res.rr.com [67.241.20.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id nAN29qoO008303 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:09:53 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <876392m2l6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117534 Archived-At: On 11/22/2009 8:50 PM, Chong Yidong wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > >> So are you saying that "file:" (with no slashes) is added by design? >> It doesn't work for me. (After the call to cygpath, I have a path of >> the form C:/blah/blah/blah.html; I need to add "file://", since >> otherwise only "file:" gets added and I don't have a valid URL.) > > Does this change (instead of the other patches we've been considering) > do the right thing on Cygwin? No. It still just adds "file:" to the windows path I get after the call to cygpath. And I can't omit the call to cygpath; if I do that, I'll have a URL with the right number of slashes, but it won't be one that the Windows browser will understand. Ken