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From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com
Subject: Re: specifying Windows filenames
Date: 24 Jun 2003 17:24:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhe6fmojg.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kvel1jkjce.fsf@mcp0147c.mch.fsc.net

Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de> writes:

> Sorry, I really should have checked this before.  I've been fooled by
> the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation.

Really? The cygwin port is now merged into Emacs CVS, so
M-x report-emacs-bug

> Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour?  unixish
> assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)?

I would expect the Cygwin version to have the following behaviour:

(expand-file-name "c:/test")   -> "/cygdrive/c/test"
(expand-file-name "c:\\test")  -> "/cygdrive/c/test"


Does it do something different?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-23 14:57 specifying Windows filenames Gustaf Erikson
2003-06-23 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.8475.1056385357.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-23 19:50   ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-24  7:07   ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24  7:11     ` Jason Rumney
2003-06-24  7:47       ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24 14:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-06-24 16:24         ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-06-25  7:55           ` Harald Joerg
2003-06-24  8:03 ` [solved] " Gustaf Erikson

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