Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems

[Klaus Berndl]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Jason Rumney wrote:

> >J.Rumney wrote:

[...]

>  
> >Unfortunately, I could not use "c:/tmp", since cygwin
> >does translate
> >this value into "/cygdrive/c/tmp". So I chose this
> >latter value
> > also for the ELisp variables.
>  
>  No!!! To any Windows program (Emacs included),
>  "/cygdrive/c/tmp"
>  refers to the file "X:\cygdrive\c\tmp", where X is the current
>  drive.
>  

You have to teach NTEmacs to understand cygwin-paths. Take a look at my
package cygwin-mount.el (available at
http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html).

After loading and activating it your NTEmacs handles perfectly all
cygwin-style paths!

Give it a try...

Klaus

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