Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: The file name conversions and Emacs

[Lennart B. <len...@st...>]

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From: "Keith MARSHALL" <kei...@to...>

> I don't know what the issues with the emacs port are; (I live in the vim
> camp -- sorry :-)

And I left the vim camp and now use Emacs viper ... ;-)


> IOW, the groff example
> shows that it is not necessary to provide differing build scripts for *nix
> and Win32 -- it is possible to achieve OOTB builds on either platform,
> with
> only one set of build scripts :-)

That is exactly what I want to have for Emacs. MSYS seems excellent for this
if it where not for a problem with file names. For some parts of the build
scripts to work Emacs needs the file names in the form c:/file.txt, not
c:\file.txt. (Otherwise \ will be treated like an "quote" for the next
char.) Since most of the programs on MS Windows understand that file format
I have suggested that make.exe and sh.exe supplies file names in this
format. In fact I the only program that come to my mind that does not
understand this file format is cmd.exe (the ms windows command line shell).