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To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, "Morche Matthias" <Matthias DOT Morche AT P7S1Produktion DOT de>
Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
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From: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
In-Reply-To: <574BF80562AF37419EA4B003C90D756D631392@EXCHANGE1.belgium.fhm.de> (Morche Matthias's message of "Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:08:30 +0200")
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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:22:13 -0400
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> * Morche Matthias <Zngguvnf DOT Zbepur AT C7F1Cebqhxgvba DOT qr> [2005-08-11 16:08:30 +0200]:
>
> Have a look at cygstart and Luc Hermitte's cyg-wrapper.sh
> (http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/)

this requires aliases in .bashrc.
I think they are ignored by makefiles &c

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of Sam Steingold
> ...
> while we are at it, how do non-cygwin programs supposed to handle this
> /cygdrive stuff?
> shell scripts mindlessly transfered from unix to cygwin do not bother to
> use cygpath before passing pathnames to external programs.
> native Emacs or vim do not appreciate /cygdrive prefixes.
> it's easier to tell Emacs how to handle /cygdrive than to fix every
> elisp Makefile that is being distributed.
> that brings me to suggest that this "cygdrive" be made available in the
> registry (which cygwin does not use at all, so, I guess, this is not
> going anywhere...)
> ...
>

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