Lennart Borgman wrote:
Guy Gascoigne-Piggford wrote:
True, and one of the reasons why I use NT Emacs rather than the
cygwin port is that it fully understands Windows sytle naming
conventions and drive identifiers. Since everything has to be
mounted under fake mount points with cygwin there really is quite a
disjoint between the two. Certainly not insurmountable, but annoying
all the same.
I was actually surprised when testing Cygwin now that I can do things
like "cd d:/some/dir" and "cd d:\\some\\dir". But you mean that the
Cygwin port of Emacs could not handle this path styles, or?
Huh? Well it looks like it's changed some since I last looked at it so
perhaps I should just give it another try.
I've really not found a good free solution and so I still use MKS
Toolkit.
Too bad ;-)
It really is a very decent product and I've used it happily and reliably
for many, many years. If it ain't broke don't fix it :)
As an aside, the realy stumbling block that I have with cygwin is
that it's pty handling screws with the way that Java, a the Java
Service Wrapper and stdout interact. Basically the combination works
just fun under MKS sh and cmd.exe and doesn't under cygwin. Very
frustrating.
Can you please explain more in detail what does not work? Could you
give examples?
Given our somewhat byzantine product setup, I'm not sure that that would
end out being that useful since I don't think that the problem is that
generic, I expect that I'll run into the problem again when I try out
the latest cygwin, if I do I'll let you know :)
Guy
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