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Re: specifying Windows filenames
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: specifying Windows filenames |
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Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:52:17 +0300 |
> From: Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:47:29 +0200
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> Sorry, I really should have checked this before. I've been fooled by
> the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation.
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> Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour? unixish
> assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)?
The Cygwin port is mostly unmodified Unix code (that's the crux of the
Cygwin project's philosophy), so it _must_ use Unixish assumptions,
almost by definition.
Re: [solved] specifying Windows filenames, Gustaf Erikson, 2003/06/24