GNU bug report logs - #14541
24.3.50; `ediff-buffers' does not play well with recent Cygwin version

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 04:15:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 14541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
Cc: 14541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14541: 24.3.50;
	`ediff-buffers' does not play well with recent Cygwin version
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:21:21 +0300

> From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:07:08 +0200
> 
> Yes.  That warning says "please do not hand a Windows path to Cygwin",
> so you would never see this warning or need an option to suppress it if
> you would use POSIX paths only.  The tool to convert between the two
> representations is cygpath.

That's unworkable.  There's no way to set up Emacs to use cygpath in
every place it passes a file name to external programs.  Especially if
some of those programs are native Windows executables, not Cygwin
programs.

So no, there's no way at all to arrange for Cygwin programs invoked
from a native Emacs to always get Posix-style file names.
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