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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:07:06 -0400
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From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
Subject: Re: backslash difference in NTEmacs/CygWin in compile buffer
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At 7/18/01 09:08 PM (Wednesday), Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:

># 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.
>[...]
># Any ideas where to look?
>
>This *may* have to do with the way NTEmacs invokes whatever
>shell you use (using, I _think_, cmdproxy.exe or somesuch),
>although the Emacs internals are really beyond me.  But
>that is one possible place to look.  Can you reproduce
>the behavior with another shell (say, command.com or
>cmd.exe) in an Emacs shell buffer?  Or is it bash specific?
>(I realise the quoting would have to be different to
>work with another shell, but what I'm getting at here is
>whether Emacs is eating the quoting before it gets to bash
>or whatever.)
>
>It might also be interesting to test with a non-Cygwin
>Windows port of bash, to verify whether that makes any
>difference.  I believe there is a DJGPP port of bash
>that should be able to run in Windows.

on Xemacs-21.4.3 + bash (same bash, different emacs):


: Bash $ echo \x\\x\\\x
x\x\x

: Bash $

ergo, GNU Emacs is doing this, not bash.


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