Re: [Mingw-users] Using GNU Emacs with msys filepaths?

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Thursday 15 April 2010 19:16:32 Bill Janssen wrote:
> > Just
> >
> >   (load "E:/home/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cygwin-mount.el")
> >   (cygwin-mount-activate)
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have cygwin installed (and don't want to
> have it installed), so the programs this depends on won't work.
>
> Anyone else?  msys filepaths with GNU Emacs?

This is a native MS-W32 build of emacs, right?  Then it will work 
with native MS-W32 paths, by design.  It is most unlikely that it 
will be possible to teach it to understand MSYS path syntax; to get 
that to work, emacs would need to be linked with the MSYS runtime 
library, which means you would need to create an MSYS specific build 
of the emacs binaries.  (Charles Wilson has provided us with a fully 
functional MSYS specific build of vim, which we distribute, but no 
one has yet done likewise for emacs).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.