Re: MS-DOS-style paths are not recognized in elisp function in 23.4-2

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/18/2012 1:40 PM, Neal Groothuis wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In Emacs 23.4-2 on Cygwin, the byte-compile-file Elisp function does not
> recognize MS-DOS style paths.  E.g., if I call (byte-compile-file
> "C:/foo/bar.el" t), it will try to compile
> "/home/ngroothuis/C:/foo/bar.el".
>
> This is a problem for those of developing in Clojure, as Leiningen's Swank
> plugin has Emacs execute an ELisp file in the user's home directory.
> Since Clojure runs on the JVM, when it reads the HOME environment variable
> to build the path to the ELisp file, it sees the MS-DOS style path rather
> than the POSIX-style path.

Does the cygpath utility help?

Ken


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