> * Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-11 14:10:05 +0000]: > >> > mount -p | sed -nr '2s/([^ ]) +\S+ +\S+$/\1/p' >> >> how about a version that strips the leading slash? > > mount -p | sed -nr '2s,/([^ ]) +\S+ +\S+$,\1,p'
that's what I also tried before sending my e-mail. it does not print anything. >> while we are at it, how do non-cygwin programs supposed to handle this >> /cygdrive stuff? > > If you are invoking a non-cygwin program, you can use cygpath to > perform the conversion. Write wrapper shell scripts to do that for > you if you commonly invoke non-cygwin programs from within cygwin. what if shell scripts that I do not control invoke emacs in ways that I do not control? >> shell scripts mindlessly transfered from unix to cygwin do not bother to >> use cygpath before passing pathnames to external programs. >> native Emacs or vim do not appreciate /cygdrive prefixes. >> it's easier to tell Emacs how to handle /cygdrive than to fix every >> elisp Makefile that is being distributed. >> that brings me to suggest that this "cygdrive" be made available in the >> registry (which cygwin does not use at all, so, I guess, this is not >> going anywhere...) > > Actually, the cygdrive prefix is part of mount(1), so it IS currently > stored in the registry. But the registry interface to how mount(1) > stores its information is intentionally undocumented, so that mount(1) > will work even if its use of the registry changes in the future. I cannot find either "cygdrive" or "cygwin" in the registry (using regedit) -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/> <http://www.palestinefacts.org/> The only intuitive interface is the nipple. The rest has to be learned. -- 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/
