Greetings, Ken Brown! >> (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. I think it would be easier to just set Cygwin to use $USERPROFILE as $HOME. Then $HOME would be a POSIX path you can use in the emacs config. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:18:43 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
