MS-DOS-style paths are not recognized in elisp function in 23.4-2

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Jun 18 21:21:00 GMT 2012


On 6/18/2012 4:46 PM, Neal Groothuis wrote:
> On 6/18/2012 2:41 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>
>> Does the cygpath utility help?
>
> If emacs can be patched to use it on on file open calls, sure.

I was suggesting that you should consider using cygpath to convert your 
MS-DOS path to a POSIX path.  Cygwin programs generally expect POSIX 
paths, and emacs is no exception.

Ken


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