RE: [h-e-w] clearcase.el - summary

[Underwood, Jonathan]

So is that line still needed for running cygwin programs or not? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, it just didn;t seem clear to me).

jonathan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: February 27, 2002 3:41 PM
> To: Richard Kim
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] clearcase.el - summary
>
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> "Richard Y. Kim" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I found the following in my startup file:
> >
> > ;;Doing the following breaks clearcase.el version
> /main/188! -ryk1/22/02.
> > ;;(setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")
>
> This is the second time this week I have seen problems with that line.
>
> I recommend strongly that people that have that in their startup
> files try removing it, and only add it back in if they have problems.
>
> w32-quote-process-args was originally added to deal with the
> difference between Cygwin and normal Windows argument quoting
> styles. More recent changes mean that when that variable is at its
> default value of t, Emacs will try to determine the type of program
> on a case by case basis, and do the right thing. Setting it to ?\"
> means you can only reliably run Cygwin subprocess under Emacs.
>
> --
> Jason Rumney
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