From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient under windows Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:41:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5nic4wg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA980AE127D4@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA980AE13801@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340210518 29850 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2012 16:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:41:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 18:41:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1ShNye-0003SB-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:41:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShNye-00060w-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShNyY-00060H-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:41:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShNyV-0003II-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:63517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShNyV-0003I3-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M5X00600CX0QV00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:41:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M5X003FED0HCBC2@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:41:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA980AE13801@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85333 Archived-At: > From: Doug Lewan > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:23:08 +0000 > > emacs-version: 23.4 > OS: CYGWIN on Windows 7 > > The symptom: > > If I run emacsclient X:\your\name\here in one place, then emacs sees that as a simple filename, so it tries to find, e.g. /home/dougl/src/X:\your\name\here (if the client was run in C:\cygwin\home\dougl\src). That's because you are using a Cygwin build of Emacs, which doesn't recognize native Windows file names without help. Use the native Windows build of Emacs, and your problems will be gone.