Re: [h-e-w] Converting cygwin path to windows path

[Jim Davidson]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:
 
> Jim Davidson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Joe Riel address@hidden writes:
> > 
> > > How do I convert a cygwin path (with forward slashes)
> > > to the equivalent windows/dos path (with backslashes)?
> > 
> > Doesn't convert-standard-filename do what you want?
> > 
> > It was written for situations like this.
> 
> Seems like it should, but in Emacs 20.7, I get :
> 
> (convert-standard-filename "c:/foo/bar")
> "c:/foo/bar"
> 
> Since most Win32 stuff accepts "/" as a directory separator (one
> notable exception is the DOS shell), this seems mostly ok.

??  It works me, after starting Emacs 20.7 with -q:

(convert-standard-filename "c:/foo/bar")
"c:\\foo\\bar"

Do you have some custom settings?

As another poster has pointed out, Cygwin paths may not even have the ":",
which is a different issue, but at least the slashes can be handled.

-Jim