On 2019-07-26 13:08, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
Dear Kaz,
You might be interested in the Cygnal project:
http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/
from your description I would think this doesn't work for Emacs. Emacs
has its own functions for path management, e.g. to decide what an
absolute path is.
Yes, like this: :)
C:\Users\kaz>txr
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 221.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (abs-path-p "C:\\foo")
t
2> (abs-path-p "C:foo")
nil
3> (abs-path-p "/foo")
t
Cygnal is not a magic fix for programs that manipulate path; it provides
a POSIX-like system interface, but which takes Windows paths. If the
program manipulates paths, that has to be ported/extended to support
Windows paths.
What it provides is that the open() system call and others understand
drive letter names and such.
chdir() understands the concept of a per-drive current working
directory, and the "currently logged drive". Check this out:
4> (chdir "f:") ;; basically a bare interface to the chdir syscall
t
5> (pwd) ;; wrapper for getcwd
"F:/"
6> (chdir "c:")
t
7> (pwd)
"C:/Users/kaz"
8>
If you want a program ported to Windows via Cygwin to understand native
conventions, Cygnal goes a long way.
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