Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/02/17:07:47
On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:52:48 -0400, Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com> wrote:
>
> One other thing- after reading cgf's comments
> in the "~/name when home is c:/user/foo" thread,
> I tried setting my HOME variable to /home/pbuckley,
> a unix path. When I start emacs from "runemacs.exe"
> it can't find my .emacs file in my home directory,
> and ~/name and "cd" and "cd ~" don't work. But when
> I start a bash shell, and then run "runemacs.exe",
> emacs can find my .emacs file in my home directory
> and ~/name and "cd" and "cd ~" work fine. Now, I
> don't expect it to work, but I still have one problem-
> (maybe my answer is "submit a patch") but when I do
> "cd /cygdrive/c" in emacs, it cd's to /cygdrive/c,
> but path completion doesn't follow me. So I can't
> Ctrl-x-f and open the file /cygdrive/c/foo.c, because
> Ctrl-x-f is still looking at "~/". So I am still
> cd-ing to "c:/" so path completion follows me.
>
> Is this expected behavior (I think so) or is there
> something I can do to workaround it other than check
> the source and then submit a patch. Even then, would
> patching cygwin to deal with this even be doable/accepted,
> or would I really have to patch emacs to get it to work?
Yes this is how it works. To overcome this there is a package
cygwin-mount.el maintained by Klaus Berndl (the last version is
from 2001-05-18) it may be found in the Cygwin mail archive:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01016.html
Ehud.
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