This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Any progress on "Fork issues ith long command lines and long $PATH"?
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: Richard Heintze <sieg_heintze at yahoo dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:26:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: Any progress on "Fork issues ith long command lines and long $PATH"?
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <569E92D1 dot 9030506 at cornell dot edu> <641659872 dot 6133623 dot 1453246485856 dot JavaMail dot yahoo at mail dot yahoo dot com>
[Please don't top post.]
On 1/19/2016 6:34 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
Regarding my choice of terms: I was trying use terms consistent with that old link
"https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00416.html".
That message doesn't even mention emacs. That's why I said in my first
reply to you that I couldn't make much sense of what you wrote.
(1) So is there a fix for the problem described in this link "https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00416.html"? According to
Corinna Vinschen's comments it is a Cygwin problem, not an emacs problem. I would love to have a fix.
I still don't know the connection between that message and emacs. Could
you say exactly what problem you're having?
(2) I was using $USERPROFILE as an example. We have dozens of these environment variables pointing to dozens directories. They enable us to type in the same file name to emacs's find file (ctrl-x-ctrl-f) regardless of who is logged in or which computer we are logged into (assuming that every account has the same directory structure and propertly defined environment variables). Yes we can manually translate them at a bash prompt but this is a lot more typing, cutting and pasteing. We also share the same .emacs file that contains thousands of file names that contain these environment variables. We will really missing feature of native emacs.
The fact that C-x C-f expands environment variables is not a special
feature of native Windows emacs. But the expansion has to yield a valid
file name. In the case of Cygwin emacs, that means a Posix path.
Maybe you could write a script that uses cygpath to convert the relevant
environment variables to Posix paths, and then call this script from
your .bashrc.
Ken
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple