From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: substitute-in-file-name is not distributive Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:25:47 -0400 Message-ID: <85mwztell0.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <50750955.4020802@dancol.org> <83k3uyz6mi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349926253 20930 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2012 03:30:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:30:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 05:31:00 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 1TM9UB-0001kS-Mi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:30:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TM9U5-0000f0-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TM9U2-0000ev-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:30:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TM9U1-0001Vx-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from qmta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.59.243]:43499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TM9U1-0001Vr-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from omta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by qmta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9fCb1k00C0Fqzac5DfWtcx; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:30:53 +0000 Original-Received: from TAKVER ([69.140.67.196]) by omta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9fRf1k00l4E4Fsd3UfRfxQ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:25:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83k3uyz6mi.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:31:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 76.96.59.243 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:154281 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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? Because usually it Just Works :). I run Cygwin Emacs for Gnus at work, because it handles the secure connection properly. But I just pretend it's native most of the time, and it's fine. Whenever it isn't, I use the Cygwin path. -- -- Stephe