Re: [Mingw-msys] Strange path transformation with Emacs

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On 12:53:58 pm 2005-07-11 Lennart Borgman <len...@st...> wrote:

> Do you mean that the result should be
>
>   $ ./dumpargs -eval '(setq foo "c:/path/to/somefile")'
>   argv[0]: D:\MSYS\1.0\home\keith\dumpargs.exe
>   argv[1]: -eval
>   argv[2]: (setq foo "c:/path/to/somefile")
>

Yes it should.

> That would indeed be very good I think! That is what I have been
> striving for. Is that a diffiicult change? It is hard for me to
> believe that there are any backward compatibility problems since the
> current behaviour seems to be a bug. Or?
>

The questions to answer are where and why the c:/path is considered a path
list.  A resolution will then be forth coming.

Earnie