From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Joerg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: specifying Windows filenames Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:47:29 +0200 Organization: Unseen University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87el1kyh73.fsf@openbsd.agero.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056441067 15679 80.91.224.249 (24 Jun 2003 07:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 24 09:51:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19UiZz-00044U-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:51:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UiZZ-0006t5-Ee for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 03:50:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed1.sbs.de!news.pdb.sbs.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.25.86.151 Original-X-Trace: dackel.pdb.sbs.de 1056440848 28947 172.25.86.151 (24 Jun 2003 07:47:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:47:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.2 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E04lc+WL7+RR+Qi4nGmVjFlmu/Q= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114673 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11166 jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com writes: > Harald Joerg writes: > >> > M-x shell-command-on-region RET perl H:/bin/command.pl RET >> >> That's the same method I thought about in the first moment, but it >> shouldn't work. Gustaf says his Perl is cygwin's, so you'd have to use >> cygwin notation: > > Cygwin understands Windows notation as input, it just doesn't produce > it as output. Ooops! Thanks for correcting that. Sorry, I really should have checked this before. I've been fooled by the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation. Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour? unixish assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)? -- Cheers, haj