Achim Gratz writes > Richard Stanton writes: > > While this seems to have something to do with the bash shell I'm > > using, this works fine for everything else, so I'm pretty sure there's > > no fundamental problem in my setup, and it would be nice to find a way > > around this problem. > > I am pretty sure there is some fundamental problem, but you never told > us what exactly your setup is. > > FWIW, I sometimes get these doubled up prefix paths since I installed > cygwin-setup and cygwin-mount from the EmacsWiki in operations that are > completely unrelated to org (I haven't had time to investigate), but > then it works for the same path if I try the same thing a bit later. > Also, as has been mentioned before, you might want to check where the > string "c:\dropbox\org" comes from, since Emacs would normally expand it > as "c:/dropbox/org", so it seems likely that you pull it in via a > Windows environment variable or it is quoted once too many. Lastly, it > is not a good idea to give such DOS paths with "\" to bash, as bash has > totally different quoting rules than DOS cmd.
Thanks. I'm using Cygwin bash under Windows Vista, and suspect you may have a point about the directory separator, though nowhere in my init.el do I use a backslash. Anyway, I'll give it a check and see what I can find.
