From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:20:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83imhsgbsu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <861roio4u3.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83h7xegosa.fsf@gnu.org> <86o8rmlyxv.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83sggxfue6.fsf@gnu.org> <86d081md7t.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="127673"; 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 16:21:47 2020 Return-path: 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 ) id 1jQtmU-000X5D-Ca for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:21:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59058 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQtmT-0000T9-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQtlt-0000Re-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42296) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQtlt-0007mT-I9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2089 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jQtls-0004rV-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:21:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86d081md7t.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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122909 Archived-At: > From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:53:42 +0200 > > > Yes. There's a function for that already in Emacs: > > cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows. > > Thank you for the hint but I still can't get it to run. > > I'm afraid there might be a bug in cygwin's w32-shell-execute because > under system-type = windows-nt (26.3) I'm able to start the following > application (with a space in the path). But under system-type = cygwin > (27.0.50) it isn't finding the exec: > > (w32-shell-execute > ;; "Open" (concat "\"" (cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows > ;; apdl-ansys-help-program) "\"") ) > ;; "open" (concat "\"" (cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows > ;; "/cygdrive/c/CAx/App/ANSYS Inc/v201/commonfiles/help/HelpViewer/ANSYSHelpViewer.exe") "\"")) > "Open" (concat "\"" > "C:\\CAx\\App\\ANSYS Inc\\v201\\commonfiles\\help\\HelpViewer\\ANSYSHelpViewer.exe" "\"")) Actually, I see that w32-shell-execute aleady invokes cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows internally, so you don't have to do that. Other than that, I'm afraid I cannot help you, sorry. I suggest to ask this on the Cygwin mailing list.