Re: [h-e-w] expand-file-name leaves forward slashes

[Jason Rumney]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> I'm now the ada-mode maintainer, and I'm testing the various ada-mode
> functions on "pure Windows"; using the DOS shell instead of Cygwin.
>
> It's not working, because all of the filenames have forward slashes as
> directory separators!
>
> To be specific, this:
>
> (expand-file-name "c:/foo/bar")
>
> is supposed to return
>
> "c:\foo\bar"
>   
No, it is supposed to return "c:/foo/bar", since Emacs uses forward 
slashes everywhere to avoid confusion with backslashes as escape 
characters in elisp strings. The function you are looking for is 
`convert-standard-filename'.