Subject: Re: backslash difference in NTEmacs/CygWin in compile buffer
From: ed park <[email-masked]>
To: Daniel Barclay <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:18:57 -0700

fwiw, tcsh in an emacs *shell* buffer acts as expected:

echo \x \\x \\\x
x \x \x

ed

At 10:42 AM 7/18/2001 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>Is this a known (or even maybe fixed) problem?:
>
>Backslashes given in commands executed in an Emacs compilation buffer
>running CygWin bash are interpreted differently than on a standard Linux
>setup.  
>
>In NTEmacs with CygWin bash, if I do M-x compile RET and give a command of
>"echo \x \\x \\\x", I get a result of "x x \x".
>
>In Emacs on Linux bash, if I do M-x compile RET and give a command of
>"echo \x \\x \\\x", I get a result of "x \x \x", as expcted.
>
>It seems that an extra level of command parsing/"unescaping" is being done,
>as if some parameter quoting is missing somewhere.
>
>Can anyone else confirm this problem?  Any ideas where to look?
>
>
>  
>
>
>My NTEmacs says it is:
>  GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-nt4.0.1381) of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy
>
>
>
>CygWin's "cygcheck.exe --sysinfo" reports:
>
>Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
>Current System Time: Wed Jul 18 10:39:51 2001
>
>WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 6
>
>Path:	/c/tools/emacs-20.7/bin
>	/usr/bin
>	/c/WINNT/system32
>	/c/WINNT
>	/c/PROGRA~1/Tcl/bin
>	/c/Daniel/bin
>	/c/tools/ant-1.3/bin
>	/c/tools/jdk1.3/bin
>	/c/tools/j2sdkee1.3/bin
>	/c/WINNT/system32
>	/c/WINNT
>	/c/PROGRA~1/Tcl/bin
>
>SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
>WinDir: C:\WINNT
>
>PWD = `/c/Daniel/Projects/CleanMailDuplicates'
>HOME = `/c/Daniel'
>
>Use `-r' to scan registry
>
>a:  fd           N/A    N/A                    
>c:  hd  NTFS    4094Mb  93% CP CS UN PA FC     C
>d:  hd  NTFS    1592Mb  99% CP CS UN PA FC     D
>e:  hd  NTFS    4094Mb  83% CP CS UN PA FC     E
>f:  cd           N/A    N/A                    
>
>C:\tools\cygwin\bin  /usr/bin  system  textmode
>C:\tools\cygwin\lib  /usr/lib  system  textmode
>C:\tools\cygwin  /        system  textmode
>C:    /c       user    textmode
>D:    /d       user    textmode
>E:    /e       user    textmode
>
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\find.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\make.exe
>Found: C:\tools\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
>
>   56k 2000/12/03 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
>   45k 2001/04/25 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
>   18k 2000/10/23 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
>   17k 2001/06/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
>   21k 2001/06/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll
>   21k 2001/06/20 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygintl.dll
>   81k 2001/04/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygitcl30.dll
>   35k 2001/04/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygitk30.dll
>   45k 2001/07/04 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygjbig1.dll
>  119k 2001/06/06 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygjpeg6b.dll
>   26k 2001/04/25 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
>  156k 2001/04/25 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
>  226k 2001/04/25 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
>   15k 2001/04/25 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
>  163k 2001/05/06 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygpng2.dll
>  108k 2001/06/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
>  135k 2001/06/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll
>  390k 2001/04/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygtcl80.dll
>    5k 2001/04/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygtclpip80.dll
>   10k 2001/04/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygtclreg80.dll
>  245k 2001/06/12 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygtiff3.dll
>  623k 2001/04/28 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygtk80.dll
>   41k 2001/07/04 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-noX4.dll
>   45k 2001/07/04 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll
>   49k 2001/02/03 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
>  678k 2001/05/21 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>    Cygwin DLL version info:
>        dll major: 1003
>        dll minor: 2
>        dll epoch: 19
>        dll bad signal mask: 19005
>        dll old termios: 5
>        dll malloc env: 28
>        api major: 0
>        api minor: 39
>        shared data: 3
>        dll identifier: cygwin1
>        mount registry: 2
>        cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>        cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>        program options name: Program Options
>        cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>        cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>        cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>        cygdrive default prefix: 
>        build date: Sun May 20 23:28:17 EDT 2001
>        shared id: cygwin1S3
>
>Use -h to see help about each section
>
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Daniel
>-- 
>Daniel Barclay
>Digital Focus
>[email-masked]
>

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