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Subject: Re: Cygwin Emacs and windows paths
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:19:19 +1100
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On 12/03/2012, at 10:09 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:

> On 03/10/2012 01:17 AM, Leo wrote:
>> Now my normal Windows paths copied from Windows Explorer don't work
>> anymore in Emacs - and vice versa. I know I can use `cygpath` to
>> convert /on the command line/, but is there any integration for this
>> in Cygwin Emacs?
> I prefer to wrap everything in a shell script.  This is the one I use,
> though I actually use "cygpath -w" because I still use NTemacs
> because I don't always start X.

Ken, you still use NTEmacs? How does *your* NTEmacs cope with the new bash/cygwin environment? Don't you get the "Inappropriate ioctl for device" error?
It would be very convenient to find a way back to NTemacs with cygwin-bash inside it…

Leo


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