Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:49:48 +0200
> 
> But now there is the problem that w32-shell-execute seemingly doesn't
> recognise cygwin paths. (here: "/cygwin/c/...")
> 
>   error "ShellExecute failed: The system cannot find the file..."
> 
> It seems to me as if w32-shell-execute is not literate for cygwin paths
> and one needs to normalise them to the Windows standard ("c:/...")?

Yes.  There's a function for that already in Emacs:
cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows.