GNU bug report logs - #20237
Emacs built on Windows cannot figure out path correctly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Da Zhang <zhangda82 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 21421

Found in version 24.5

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Da Zhang <zhangda82 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20237: Emacs built on Windows cannot figure out path correctly
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:18:56 -0400

Thanks for  your time!

M-: (w32-shell-name) RET returns

"C:/cygwin64/bin/bash.exe"

On 4/4/2015 2:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:06:02 -0400
>> From: Da Zhang <zhangda82 <at> gmail.com>
>> CC: 20237 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> The
>> (w32-shell-dos-semantics)
>>
>> returns nil.
> OK, so what does this display:
>
>    M-: (w32-shell-name) RET
>
>> Can you please let me know how to use edebug to follow through python-shell-parse-command?
> This is no longer needed: if w32-shell-dos-semantics returns nil, then
> shell-quote-argument will quote every character not in the Posix
> character set with a backslash.  This is what you see.  The question
> is why w32-shell-dos-semantics returns nil.
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