From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14541: 24.3.50; `ediff-buffers' does not play well with recent Cygwin version Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:21:21 +0300 Message-ID: <83mwr3uh1a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2c39c869-9210-432d-aa95-d392e9ee8dac@default> <87txlfrvd8.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <5f681b7a-8e4d-4263-9337-817bd2c00fa6@default> <87a9n41fe0.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <9db8fa66-43bf-4d68-841d-8ddb3c1a65cf@default> <87ip1rdpnn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370550198 1242 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2013 20:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 20:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14541@debbugs.gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 06 22:23:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1UkgiH-0008FT-Dq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:23:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkgiG-00044C-OD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkgiC-000445-GG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukgi9-0006Qi-Pa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:23:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukgi9-0006QY-Ml for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukgi5-0007YO-S7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:23:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:23:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14541 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14541-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14541.137055015428953 (code B ref 14541); Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14541) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Jun 2013 20:22:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54954 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukghd-0007Wv-Vk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:54819) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukghc-0007Wd-4W for 14541@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MNZ00700N5SK800@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 14541@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:21:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MNZ007EBN7H5A80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:21:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87ip1rdpnn.fsf@Rainer.invalid> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:74851 Archived-At: > From: Achim Gratz > Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:07:08 +0200 > > Yes. That warning says "please do not hand a Windows path to Cygwin", > so you would never see this warning or need an option to suppress it if > you would use POSIX paths only. The tool to convert between the two > representations is cygpath. That's unworkable. There's no way to set up Emacs to use cygpath in every place it passes a file name to external programs. Especially if some of those programs are native Windows executables, not Cygwin programs. So no, there's no way at all to arrange for Cygwin programs invoked from a native Emacs to always get Posix-style file names.