From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: substitute-in-file-name is not distributive Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:31:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83k3uyz6mi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <50750955.4020802@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349883119 14931 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2012 15:31:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 10 17:32:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TLyGP-00084H-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:32:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34104 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLyGJ-0002cA-IP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLyGB-0002UW-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:31:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLyG1-0003o5-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:58991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TLyG1-0003ng-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBO00L00OEAN900@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:30:58 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBO00L1DOFKMR10@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:30:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <50750955.4020802@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154271 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:36:21 -0700 > From: Daniel Colascione > > I wrote a bit of code to handle Windows paths in being given to > read-file-name in a Cygwin Emacs --- it's just a simple > file-name-handler-alist entry that overrides substitute-in-file-name > for Windows paths to yield the corresponding Cygwin path. I'm not sure I understand the use case. Are you talking about a user who wants to feed a Cygwin Emacs with a native Windows style file name? Why would she want to do that? I could understand a different use case: when a native Windows program invoked by a Cygwin Emacs returns Windows style file names. But for that, read-file-name is not the place to add support for this.