Re: [h-e-w] Converting cygwin path to windows path

[Harald . Maier . BW]

Joe Riel <address@hidden> writes:

> How do I convert a cygwin path (with forward slashes)
> to the equivalent windows/dos path (with backslashes)?
> 

> In my .emacs file I use the following so that, in dired, I can
> launch a windows application.  Usually it works as is, however, for
> some path names it fails. Converting the forward slashes to
> backslashes will work, is there a predefined procedure that does so?
> 

emacs-21.1 has the new function "replace-regexp-in-string" to do such
replacements.

E.g. (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\\\" "c:/abc/def")