Re: specifying Windows filenames

[Jason Rumney]

Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de> writes:

> Sorry, I really should have checked this before.  I've been fooled by
> the fact that cygwin _Emacs_ does not accept Windows notation.

Really? The cygwin port is now merged into Emacs CVS, so
M-x report-emacs-bug

> Hmmm... what's the reason behind this Emacs behaviour?  unixish
> assumptions in a built-in function (expand-file-name)?

I would expect the Cygwin version to have the following behaviour:

(expand-file-name "c:/test")   -> "/cygdrive/c/test"
(expand-file-name "c:\\test")  -> "/cygdrive/c/test"


Does it do something different?