Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Stephen Leake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> The reason this works is that Cygwin mounts / at the installation >> directory, and any directory under / does not use the /cygdrive >> notation. So if the installation directory is d:/, then any directory >> d:/foo/bar will be shown as /foo/bar in Cygwin, rather than >> /cygdrive/d/foo/bar. And the native Win32 Emacs will understand it. > > I think this trick will work only as long as you work with files from > the same drive (D: in this case).
Yes. > But anyway, I think such tinkering is unjustified, "tinkering"? Just making the proper installation choice. The advice against it in the Cygwin installer is just wrong, and should be changed. > because you will not need it if cygwin-mount.el does its job well. I need it for other tools as well. For example, I have an Ada compiler that expects Win32 paths, but I use Cygwin make. So make has to output Win32 paths, not Cygwin paths. I have tried to insert 'cygpath -w' whereever it is needed, but could never get that to work. Mounting "/" at "c:/" works. Another reason for using bash, rather than cmd; I need bash on other boxes, so this way I only have to learn one shell. -- -- Stephe
