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Re: Request to support Cygwin in convert-standard-filename function
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Request to support Cygwin in convert-standard-filename function |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:02:39 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> According to the description of the `convert-standard-filename`, it is
> expected to be used only in places where the callee wants to convert a *nix
> path to the underline OS path.
The output of convert-standard-filename is meant to be used *inside*
Emacs, not outside of it.
The purpose of convert-standard-filename is to convert a *standard* file
name such as ~/.emacs for those cases where this standard file name
happens not to work on the system (e.g. because file names can't start
with a ".").
Stefan