Re: w32-shell-execute and Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:53:42 +0200
> 
> > Yes.  There's a function for that already in Emacs:
> > cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows.
> 
> Thank you for the hint but I still can't get it to run.
> 
> I'm afraid there might be a bug in cygwin's w32-shell-execute because
> under system-type = windows-nt (26.3) I'm able to start the following
> application (with a space in the path).  But under system-type = cygwin
> (27.0.50) it isn't finding the exec:
> 
>     (w32-shell-execute
>      ;; "Open" (concat "\"" (cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows
>      ;;                                      apdl-ansys-help-program) "\"") )
>      ;; "open" (concat "\"" (cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows
>      ;;                                      "/cygdrive/c/CAx/App/ANSYS 
> Inc/v201/commonfiles/help/HelpViewer/ANSYSHelpViewer.exe") "\""))
>         "Open" (concat "\""
>                        "C:\\CAx\\App\\ANSYS 
> Inc\\v201\\commonfiles\\help\\HelpViewer\\ANSYSHelpViewer.exe" "\""))

Actually, I see that w32-shell-execute aleady invokes
cygwin-convert-file-name-to-windows internally, so you don't have to
do that.

Other than that, I'm afraid I cannot help you, sorry.  I suggest to
ask this on the Cygwin mailing list.