Hi Mathias, Mathias Kegelmann <mathias.kegelm...@gmail.com> writes:
> thanks for pointing out that the version is missing. I am running: > > ELISP> (emacs-version) > "GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)\n of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1" > > The issue with shell-quote is as follows: > > ELISP> (shell-quote-argument "c:/org/test") > "c\\:/org/test" This is also the output for current Emacs (24.1.50.1). > The problem is the backslash before the colon as quoting colons > doesn't seem to be legal in Cygwin. Mh.. I'm don't really know anything about Cygwin, so perhaps it's safer to ask this on the emacs-devel@ mailing list. IIUC, the question is whether Cygwin requires something else than 'shell-quote-argument in such cases. Thanks, -- Bastien