From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Filipp Gunbin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how paths work in cygwin? Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:10:53 +0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453129879 3798 80.91.229.3 (18 Jan 2016 15:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 18 16:11:09 2016 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 1aLBSV-0001nh-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:11:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLBSU-00066a-3z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLBSP-00066O-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLBSM-0000Zm-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:11:01 -0500 Original-Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:50023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aLBSM-0000Zi-P2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B642075D for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:10:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:10:57 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h=cc :content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=YSGAu Eqrrfr+H5ESUOkLoWMMkjc=; b=R+W8oJhDymfWRj79Bl5uOCvsxN8/UiEKTfr+e TRdlmSjAXeZSfbUXVMwZXhCOEN8Arz7CAaiHLto8MzWIDmOTEvP1t9pxb50wfQvJ /y6X0+yZkbnpBXLCSGLFmvwKILrj2opEq5H39lrHHSFink/H1tmDCcMkN2A2Tk/T 0qcwuA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=YSGAuEqrrfr+H5ESUOkLoWMMkjc=; b=V2lL+ g4EgDVPEqpE+fN3keovn9RB+ebDU6XnET8zu1J8lrPjqWi1mCDr9lTmlk83S3x20 AigKk2Qokzi/rn9f8JJShyh5aYs9awaJBUnssUYTCrb4Ev15wO1kmzJy0YwE/LdZ d45Nha/TJdP9uC1pVkhhwQxOnbozr/ud6aarhw= X-Sasl-enc: Z6vd1Um3yXFZAGqx1+RFbEHyYiPxAUNSnwsLkNhiEYuQ 1453129856 Original-Received: from fgunbin.local (unknown [94.25.218.10]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A48076800D5; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:10:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Leo Liu's message of "Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:24:37 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.29 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:198251 Archived-At: On 18/01/2016 16:24 +0800, Leo Liu wrote: > I am getting a bug report https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags/issues/121 > because emacs and global represent paths in cygwin differently? > > global: "/e/gtk-3-compilation/build/gtk+-3.19.4/gtk/" > emacs: "e:/gtk-3-compilation/build/gtk+-3.19.4/gtk/" > > Which path representation is more correct? Do we have something to > convert one to the other? The answer is "use Cygwin port of emacs under Cygwin". You could try to support Cygwin paths in Windows Emacs, but I don't know if that's worth the value. There are some path conversion functions in Cygwin Emacs (probably not in Window Emacs), but they weren't available in the last release I used on Cygwin. Filipp