On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jeffery B. Rancier wrote: > Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's not a bug, unless you consider a Windows program not being able to > > understand Cygwin symbolic links a bug. I don't think there is much > > chance of changing Windows to permit all applications a proper understanding > > though. > > I see. Why does it work at all, then? I renamed my emacs version of > etags to ensure that I was running cygwin's. > > > I'm surprised you don't see this all of the time when invoked in NTEmacs. > > Regardless, it would never work, even if it doesn't complain. Use > > Cygwin's emacs, ctags directly, or some emacs lisp wizardry to resolve > > this issue. > > First time I've ever seen it is three years.
What you could do is create an "etags.bat" that runs 'bash -c etags "%1" "%2" "%3" "%4" "%5" "%6" "%7" "%8" "%9"', put it in your PATH, and you should be able to call that from NTEmacs. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/