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To: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Cc: vim-dev AT vim DOT org
Subject: Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin
In-Reply-To: <20020422211121.B7762@cygbert.vinschen.de>
From: Bram Moolenaar <Bram AT moolenaar DOT net>
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:18:40 +0200


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:35:50PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > I'm quite sure this is not a good solution.  It's just waiting to fail
> > in another place.  The Unix code just isn't prepared for backslashes in
> > a file name to be path separators, they are seen as escaping the special
> > meaning of characters.
> > 
> > Why not add something at the start of main() to change backslashes to
> > forward slashes?  Or better: Isn't there a cygwin trick for this
> > already?
> 
> Sure: 
> 
>    #include <sys/cygwin.h>
> 
>    cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *win_path, char *posix_path);

That sounds like something we can use.  But lacking the manual page it's
a bit difficult to know exactly how to call it.  Also, can this function
be used when the path is already a "posix" path?  Or do we need a test
whether this function needs to be called (a backslash being present).

Actually, it would help a lot if someone with Cygwin installed can look
into this and test a few things.

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