Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin

[dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:49:48 +0200
>> 
>> But now there is the problem that w32-shell-execute seemingly doesn't
>> recognise cygwin paths. (here: "/cygwin/c/...")
>> 
>>   error "ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the file..."
>> 
>> It seems to me as if w32-shell-execute is not literate for cygwin paths
>> and one needs to normalise them to the Windows standard ("c:/...")?
>
> 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" "\""))

Thank you

        Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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