Re: RE: Trouble with classpaths

[LENNART BORGMAN]

I think Emacs compiled for Cygwin should understand paths like 
C:/some/path/to/file.txt since Cygwin understands them.

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From: address@hidden
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:22 am
Subject: RE: Trouble with classpaths

> > From: Jon Haugsand address@hidden
> > JDE has a little bit split personalities here.  First, the 
> cygwin 
> > awareness is appearant through functions like 
> > jde-cygwin-path-converter, but I was quite merciless told
> > that jde does not support cygwin emacs, and the problem
> > is especially visible in jde-open-class-at-point that eventually
> > calls jde-normalize-path which absolutely insists to convert
> > a fragment like:
> > 
> >     /usr/local/project/...
> > 
> > into 
> > 
> >    C:/cygwin/usr/local/project/...
> > 
> > which emacs is not able to understand.
> > I actually blocked the call to jde-normalize-path in this case 
> and 
> > it mostly to work.
> 
> I guess you mean "which Cygwin Emacs is not able to understand". 
> Like other
> MS Windows applications native Emacs understands this. And 
> actually I think
> that Cygwin Emacs ought to do that too, escpecially since Cygwin 
> understandsthis path format too. Or am I wrong here?
>